Ep 637: ChatGPT’s New Agentic browser: Hands on with OpenAI’s Atlas

Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. OpenAI Atlas Agentic Browser Overview
2. Key Features of Atlas Agentic Browser
3. Atlas Sidebar ChatGPT Integration
4. Atlas Browser Context and Memory Capabilities
5. Agent Mode Automated Website Actions
6. Cursor Collaborator for In-Page Assistance
7. Atlas Browser Security and Data Controls
8. Hands-On Atlas Browser Demo & Use Cases
9. Atlas vs. Comet Agentic Browser Comparison
10. Limitations and Accuracy Issues in Atlas
11. Atlas Browser UI/UX Design Critique
12. Final Verdict: Atlas Browser Potential
13. 
    

Keywords:

Atlas browser, OpenAI, agentic browser, ChatGPT Atlas, AI browser, agentic features, agent mode, browsing context, browser memory, sidebar ChatGPT, Chromium-based browser, browser integration, paid account features, Mac operating system, cloud browser, browser security concerns, enterprise browser, chat history sync, website memory, context sharing, non-agentic browsers, copy-pasting workflow, automated website navigation, automated form filling, cursor collaborator, in-browser AI assistant, natural language browser search, browser prompts, search history integration, automated shopping, agentic checkout protocol, agentic transaction, prompt engineering, prompt injections, browser guardrails, Chrome extensions, Buzzsprout episode stats, Google Gemini integration, deep research mode, chain of thought, web summarization, browser interface, user experience, search experience, SERP, context-aware browsing, real-time AI assistant, browser speed issues, factual accuracy, interface bugs, AI operating system, browser market share, browser monetization, update cadence, Perplexity Comet, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Firefox, Sora.

Podcast Transcript

Jordan Wilson [00:00:44]:
OpenAI released probably their most important product to date, their agentic Atlas browser. A browser, your most important product, more important than GPT five or Sora two or their new agent builder. Yeah. Here's why. A browser is how you own user data and control their habits. After all, Google was paying Apple reportedly more than $20,000,000,000 a year to be the default engine on Apple's Safari browsers. Because if you control the browser, you control where the user goes and ultimately the monetization that comes with it. And with open AI already completely controlling the AI chatbot market, They want a slice of Google's browser pie.

Jordan Wilson [00:01:38]:
So is there new Atlas agentic browser the answer? Will open AI go all in on making this work or will they get kind of ignored like GPTs did the past couple of quarters? Well, we're gonna dive into at least some of those things and talk about how it works and how you can save time by using OpenAI's new Atlas browser on today's show. So welcome to EverydayAI. What's going on y'all? My name is Jordan Wilson, and this is your daily livestream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday business leaders like you and me make sense of all of these AI happenings and make use of the tools that actually matters. It starts here with the unedited, unscripted livestream podcast. But if you wanna take it to the next level, make sure to go to our website, youreverydayai.com. Sign up for the free daily newsletter. We're gonna be recapping the highlights from today's show as well as everything else that you need to know happening in the world of AI. So OpenAI's new Atlas browser.

Jordan Wilson [00:02:40]:
What do you think? I have thoughts, but let's just go ahead and take a look at what we're going to go over on today's show. I'm going to show you the main features of ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's new agentic browser. I'm going to talk about some of the more intriguing features, capabilities, and some limitations that you should be aware of. I'm going to go hands on with at least three demos, maybe more. We'll see how long they take. And I'm going to give you my final verdict on if Atlas is worth using. And, if you are new here, every single Wednesday, we do a little segment called putting AI to work on Wednesdays, where we show you new tools and techniques on how we use AI here at everyday AI. This is one of those because Atlas has only been out for a couple of hours.

Jordan Wilson [00:03:25]:
We're not gonna be able to go into a ton of depth, and if it's helpful, maybe we'll do another Atlas show in the future. But I wanted to cover the basics, but also tell you right now how you can use Atlas to save time because it's available now. Yeah. This is, luckily, this isn't one of those things that, you know, got put on a wait list, you know, like the original Sora did and nine months later, everyone finally got access. You can go download Atlas today even if you are a free user. However, some of the more, agentic features do require a paid account, but it's available today in preview for plus pro and business users. Right now though, it's only available on the Mac operating system, but OpenAI did say that they're going to be rolling it out to other devices including mobile and Windows soon. So before we get into agentic browsers alright.

Jordan Wilson [00:04:22]:
And hey. Live stream audience. Great to see you. Jose joining. Joe says he can't run it on his Intel Mac. Doctor Ruth, thanks for joining us. Marie, Sarah, Gordon, big bogey face on the YouTube machine, Bronson, Tim, everyone else. If you have questions or comments, about, Atlas, please let me know.

Jordan Wilson [00:04:41]:
But we first have to start with why agentic browsers matter. This I don't think this is one of those cases, like, if it's not broke, don't fix it. Right? What's wrong with Chrome? I've been using Chrome for, I don't know, How long has it been out? Fifteen plus years. There's nothing wrong with Chrome sometimes, except when there is, and this isn't a Chrome thing. This is everyone, every browser, right? All of a sudden you have fifteen, twenty, 30 tabs open. You're constantly having to copy and paste information to share context between all of those tabs. This is where agentic browsers come in. So if you're brand new, here's one in the agentic browser is, and then we're going to go over the newer features of OpenAI's Atlas browser.

Jordan Wilson [00:05:26]:
So Atlas can understand the context of everything you browse. That's the big thing. Right? It can also if you're on a paid plan, it can take over your screen, navigate websites, fill out forms, and complete actions all on your behalf. So many of the things that a human sitting down at a computer could do, Atlas can do if you're on a paid plan and you can take advantage of those agent features. Alright. I like to tell people this. It's like having an intern who has access to a computer and all of your information, right? Think maybe you're, you're working remotely or you know, you have a family member at home and you're like, oh my gosh, this, this huge project, Right? And you gotta call them and you gotta talk them through it. That's what agentic browsers are now.

Jordan Wilson [00:06:13]:
Very useful if you have the patience and the, if you've practiced prompt engineering for an agentic browser, it's a little different how you wanna talk to a browser in order to get it to accomplish your goals. But, hey, with this OpenAI integration, it should skip a couple of steps. You can it can actually use your actual browser. That's big while you're logged into websites, or it can use a cloud browser where you can store your credentials. With that, obviously, comes a lot of security concerns, so you have to, you know, run those through, you know, whether you're using this in a business standpoint, as part of a larger organization. We'll see what OpenAI does, to better prepare Atlas for the enterprise. I think there's probably some things that need to be done. There's also a sidebar to talk to Chat GPT on any page.

Jordan Wilson [00:07:05]:
Right? So essentially, Chat GPT can easily follow you around and not only understand your history and context, but quickly help you better understand any page you're on with just essentially two quick clicks. And then the big one, obviously, is it it carries your entire chat g b t history and context into the browser. That one's important. So if you have memory enabled on your base chat g b t account and if you enable website memory or browser memory, it's going to be a, hopefully a somewhat seamless experience to share that context. And here's why that's important. That is ultimately why non agentic browsers are technically broken. Right? Because you might have 30 tabs open and you have to spend sometimes so much time carrying context or quite literally copying and pasting, different content over and over. So you might, as an example, open an email, say, oh, I need to do some research on this, open a couple tabs.

Jordan Wilson [00:08:05]:
You know, you might copy and paste certain things from those tabs into chat GBT or Gemini or Claude. You might start to create some content. You might take that into, you know, a Canva or create a PDF or something, and then ultimately go back into the original email. Right? There's a lot of going between different tabs and using different now AI features and ultimately carrying contact between tabs. So that's what agentic browsers hope to cut down on. So here's what's new in Atlas. So, the sidebar, number one, like I said, a little ask chat g p t toggle no matter what website you're on very quickly, not just get, context from any web page within one click. You can talk to any web page, get anything you want from there.

Jordan Wilson [00:08:51]:
So nothing terribly new there. Almost any agentic browser has that capability, but the big thing is, those chats will ultimately end up in your ChatGPT account. Right? Because when you log in, Atlas is based on Chromium. Okay? So it's gonna bring in you'll have the option to sync it to one of your Google accounts that you use Chrome on. All agentic browsers are based on Chromium, Chrome's open source standard. Right? So it's gonna bring in all your, you know, existing Chrome data or you can start from scratch, but you do have to start with one of your chat GBT accounts. K? So it's gonna bring that context over as well. But at any point, you can click the ask Chat GPT button in the upper right hand corner.

Jordan Wilson [00:09:32]:
It's gonna give you based on the content of the page. It's gonna give you some, pre baked prompts that you can just one click to get better, information, or you can just chat with the web page with ChatGPT right there. You can pick up where you left off. That's the big thing. Right? Not only having access to previous conversations in ChatGPT, but later, maybe you're not even in Atlas. Maybe you're in Chrome or, Perplexities comment or a different browser. When you go into your ChatGPT account, you can pick up where you left off. That part is nice.

Jordan Wilson [00:10:10]:
That is a great feature to have because, yeah, let's say that you're, getting some great work done in a browser tab or with the sidebar. You don't have to worry about saving that or copying and pasting that you can pick up where you left off. The big one, if you are on a paid plus pro or business account agent mode, you can activate it and it can complete actions on your behalf. I don't know why every single AI lab when they're trying to demo agentic features, it's always shopping. That's the last thing. I don't know. I don't know if it's just me. Live stream audience.

Jordan Wilson [00:10:46]:
Do you actually want an agent or an agentic browser to shop for you? Not me. You know, but you could have it go look up recipes and then, you know, I don't know. I I live in Chicago. You could go have it log into your Jewel Osco account and start adding certain things to your cart. I I don't know. From a time savings perspective, at least right now, and we'll get into this when I start to give you my verdict and my take, it's not a huge time savings to go have an agentic browser or even an agent always go add things to your cart. Alright. The next big feature is there's a new, kind of cursor collaborator.

Jordan Wilson [00:11:23]:
So this is anywhere inside the Atlas browser where you are typing. So it could be in an email, it could be in a Google doc. Right there's when you highlight the text, there's a very small, I think, OpenAI called it a knob in their, live stream, but a little colored bubble, that you can click on and then chat with ChatGPT right there wherever you are typing. So you're not gonna get the full ChatGPT interface, but essentially a little box that, you know, if you're typing up an email and you're at a loss for words, if you need to bring in context from your ChatGPT account, whatever you may be, trying to do when typing a quick way, to get that assistance right away. Also, ChatGPT did, say that they're taking security very seriously in here. They say you can decide which sites ChatGPT can see, clear your browsing history, and manage browser memories anytime. So we're not gonna go into all the browser settings. You all are smart enough.

Jordan Wilson [00:12:20]:
You can go in there and click settings and click through them all. Alright. So I'm excited. Live stream audience. Let me know what you're thinking. But before we jump in live, because we're gonna do at least three different live use cases here. But before we do that, a very quick word from our sponsors. This podcast is supported by Google.

Jordan Wilson [00:12:41]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:13:11]:
Alright. Let's go ahead and couple couple of questions from the audience here. If you have any questions, let me know. Marie says an agent shopping for me. No. An agent paying for my shopping for sure. Yeah. That's eventually, I I do see that coming.

Jordan Wilson [00:13:28]:
Right? Not the agent actually, paying for your purchases. Right? But right now, it's not gonna check out all the way for you. It's going to add things to your cart. But one thing, and this is part of OpenAI's bigger play here, with Atlas as well, they did introduce a agentic checkout protocol. So it does have the capabilities. Right? They're not baked in or enabled yet, but I would assume in the future, the agent will actually be able to complete transactions. Right now, it's just gonna add things to your cart. And from there kind of baked in guardrails, it's going to leave things off there for you and say, hey.

Jordan Wilson [00:14:02]:
I did all this shopping for you. Do you want to continue? Big bogey question says, can you have a chat with Atlas? Yes. Technically, you're chatting with Chat GPT and I will show you how to do that in any, sidebar of any window that you're on. You can chat with Chat GPT, about the content on that page or anything else. Joe says, if it shops for me, I wanted to find options. Let me make the decision. Same, Joe. Brian says, I've been using con comment, so interested to see how that stacks up.

Jordan Wilson [00:14:30]:
Yeah. Me as well. And, hey, livestream audience podcast people, if you want me to do maybe I could tomorrow, or Friday. If you want a comment comparison, I'd say right now, Perplexity's comment is the leader, in terms of, agentic browser. So if you wanna see kind of a head to head comparison, just go ahead and say comment. I don't know. I have a number in my head. If if, if enough people, wanna see that comparison, we'll go ahead and do it.

Jordan Wilson [00:14:56]:
Alright. So, I am now sharing my screen. So podcast audience, I'm gonna do my best to describe everything to you. But right now, I have a comment or sorry, a, Atlas browser open, and I've logged in to a number of websites. Okay? And I've connected it, obviously, to my chat GBT account. I've synced, it to one of my Chrome profiles. So I have my podcast stats open here. I'm gonna start this prompt, and this is gonna be an agent mode prompt.

Jordan Wilson [00:15:29]:
So again, you do have to be on a paid account, and this one's probably gonna take, probably gonna take a couple of minutes. So I'm gonna get it started. Alright? It's gonna be like a cooking show. We'll see if the cake is actually going to bake in the allotted time or if I'm gonna have to show you the end cake. So in agent mode, I put in a simple prompt. I'll tell you what I'm doing. But, if you're watching the live stream now, you can see that, Atlas is actually controlling my screen. There's a little bit of a of an animation, right, with some different, colors and dots and all these things, and, I can see that it's thinking.

Jordan Wilson [00:16:02]:
So, obviously, the Atlas is powered by a thinking model. So, and it's already failed. Right? Alright. Perfect. So let me at least say, as Atlas figures out, how to navigate my screen, what I essentially asked it to do, and I enabled agent mode. So it's gonna be, navigating and clicking around here as I talk about this prompt that I did. So I said, in my buzzsprout episode stats, find my most popular episode from twenty twenty five quarter two. Go find that episode and remember the content, then run a deep research query using Google Gemini with an emphasis on updating the episode for this quarter, making sure to update old info, insert new stats, etcetera.

Jordan Wilson [00:16:49]:
The final output should be a well formatted episode outline based on the previous podcast transcript and the new information gleaned from the Gemini deep research search. Follow each step precisely. As an example, you must do the research with a Google Gemini deep research query and not using chat GPT. So this is an example of something that I would be doing with my own time. Right? I'm showing you this is putting AI to work at Wednesdays. I'm showing you how I'm probably gonna be using, you know, Atlas and how I have been using, you you know, other agentic browsers. So in short, I'm trying to find a popular episode, from a couple of months ago by looking at my stats, then go find that episode online, and you'll see. In some instances, I gave Atlas very specific instructions.

Jordan Wilson [00:17:42]:
Right? I said, hey. You have to go use, Gemini Google Gemini deep research. But I didn't tell it, go to my website and find the episode. So certain things, I'm giving it very specific instructions. Certain things, I'm leaving it open for interpretation to test how well this works. Right? I am okay at prompting. So I could get this to work at almost 100% rate with trial and error, looking at the chain of thoughts, reprompting, etcetera. I want to find something in between.

Jordan Wilson [00:18:14]:
I wanna find a a prompt that maybe or an example that a lot of, our average listeners might be doing. Right? So again, I'm logged into multiple, websites here. I'm giving it some specific instructions. I'm giving it an angle, but I'm also leaving a couple of things open for interpretation. So we're gonna check-in, on this prompt, and, hopefully, the results in a little bit. Right? Because, again, putting AI to work live. We're gonna see how it works. So, a couple of things under the hood, which, is good to know.

Jordan Wilson [00:18:46]:
Anytime that you have, you know so right now, I I have multiple tabs open in my Atlas browser. Anytime there's agentic features going on, if you look in the top tabs, you will kind of see a floating cursor, right? So what that means is that there's a agent working in that tab. And if you go to close it before it's done, you will get a warning, which is nice because not all agentic browsers do that. Alright. So now let's hop over and, opening a, not even okay. So I just have a new tab here, and I wanted to start, on that prompt to give it time to see if it could finish live. But now let's kinda start at the beginning, and I wanna walk everyone through the interface because it's actually a little different. There's things about it I love, and there's things about it that are actually confusing.

Jordan Wilson [00:19:35]:
Well, because this is a browser. Right? So if you click new tab or once you open Atlas, it's going to send you to a page that looks like Chad GPT's homepage, but it's actually very different. And I actually wish from a UI and UX perspective, OpenAI should have, made these way more, like, starkly different. Right? I get what they were trying to do. They were trying to make a a nice, intuitive and seamless transition for people to kind of use this homepage. But the problem is it looks too much like chatgpt.com. And the capabilities and features between a new tab or this kind of home screen of Atlas and chatgpt.com, they're too similar, and the functionalities are very different. Alright.

Jordan Wilson [00:20:28]:
So small, small, bone to pick, I guess, with OpenAI, but, that's fine. So you will see this kind of home Atlas screen anytime you open a new tab or launch the Atlas browser. You will still have the model selector in the upper left hand corner, but that's it. It's a much cleaner interface. So you can still, at that point, just start typing, or, another thing that I don't like, maybe this is from using browsers for too long. The address bar is kind of hidden by default. Right? So you have your normal kind of chat GPT, input area, but then also well, this is a browser. But if you look in the normal URL bar, you won't see anything.

Jordan Wilson [00:21:13]:
So you you have to go up and hover, and then you'll see a URL bar. And also the URL bar is centered. So some small things I don't like because normally when I'm browsing and I'm sure it's like this for the majority of people, my cursor instantly goes to the upper left hand corner, which right now does nothing. Alright. So anyways, some differences between a normal browser, the chatgpt.com website, and the new Atlas home screen. Alright. Also from the Atlas home screen, there's a couple of things. It will give you suggestions, kind of quick actions based on what tabs you have open.

Jordan Wilson [00:21:46]:
So it says, you know, one of my suggestions is to open Buzzsprout and look at my pod podcast metrics. I can enable agent mode from here, some other things. Okay. I can also click the plus button. I can add, you know, kind of some normal chat g p t interface items here. I can add tabs and chat with those tabs. I can enable agent mode. I can just search something with browser memory.

Jordan Wilson [00:22:11]:
I can still do, image gen, deep research, tab search, and a couple of more things here. Alright. So you get most of the capabilities of chatgvt.com in the Atlas browser, but not all of them. Right? So as an example from here, I can't look at my chat history. I can't go and, use GPTs or projects. So it's almost like they were trying to make it, like, yeah. It's just like using Chad GPT. But by doing so, some of the key elements that you would use aren't even there.

Jordan Wilson [00:22:45]:
So it's I think it would have been better, for OpenAI just to go in a different direction and not try to, kind of confuse the two. Alright. Enough about that. Let's start doing some more use cases here. Alright. So now what I'm going to do is I've opened my website, youreverydayai.com. So make sure you go, you go check that out. All right.

Jordan Wilson [00:23:08]:
So I'm going to go ahead and run a prompt here. So I have it typed out so you don't have to, watch me type. So now in the upper right hand corner, you will see this ask chat GPT button. Okay? So it's going to okay. Interestingly enough, it's there we go. Alright. So it pre populated some prompt examples. None of these are ones that I would actually use, but I'm gonna put in a quick prompt and I'm gonna say find the last three episodes about chat GPT and summarize the three biggest takeaways for this episode.

Jordan Wilson [00:23:44]:
So because I am on the your everyday AI website, I didn't have to give it more directions. Right? I didn't have to say use your everyday AI. Hopefully, agent, the agent mode in Atlas will understand and, do this action for me. Again, this is something that I might be doing, on an, you know, somewhat somewhat routine basis. Right? I go to our website actually a lot and refer to different things. Right? If I'm, you know, going on an interview, doing consulting for a company, you know, they wanna know about a certain product, I'll actually go back and, you know, reference our own, material a lot, and you should as well. Alright. So, right away, it did a pretty good job.

Jordan Wilson [00:24:27]:
So, it went and found episode six thirty five. That's correct. That was the AI news that matters. It looked at our ChatGPT apps episode, from June. That's correct. And episode six twenty six, where we talked about ChatGPT's new agent builder. So, it did a pretty good job and then it left kind of sources at the bottom. So you don't have to enable agent mode.

Jordan Wilson [00:24:51]:
So even if you're on a free plan, it can still do a pretty good job of, quote unquote, navigating a website without manually and actually navigating it. Alright. So and then I can also, click into an episode as an example. I'm gonna click into episode six thirty four here, and I'm just going to say, summarize this page. Right? And then it's going to take the context of this page. And probably in a quick second here, it's gonna give me a quick recap. Alright. Today, it's actually very, very slow.

Jordan Wilson [00:25:27]:
So, they just released Atlas, probably what, about sixteen hours ago. So I'm guessing their their GPUs are melting over there at OpenAI. But slowly but surely, it's giving me a, pretty decent, summary, although it's going very slow, especially compared even the hour it was first released, it was much faster. So you'll probably have to, if you are using Atlas, kind of, keep up with that. Alright. Let's do a another example. So I'm gonna open a new tab here inside Atlas. So, one other thing that's great is you can do this browser memory.

Jordan Wilson [00:26:10]:
Okay? So you can search your browser memory. So when you import, or connect, Atlas to a Google account, it will import your bookmarks and your history. I thought that it was going to import extensions. It didn't, which I was super bummed about because, the other agentic browsers that are based on Chromium, mainly Microsoft Edge and Perplexity Comet did a great job of importing extensions, Chrome extensions. So I don't know if that's a bug right now in Atlas. Huge bummer for me. I have, literally thousands of extensions installed, not all active, but I'm a huge, Chrome extensions guy. So big bummer for me to have to go through and manually, add those.

Jordan Wilson [00:26:57]:
Anyways, it will also import your browser history if you ask it to. And then from there on out, when you use Atlas, it will know. So I have a simple prompt. I said in my search history, what was the post about someone getting a d g x spark from Jensen? And you'll see here, this is not a lot of context. Alright? So I'm gonna go ahead, run this prompt, and what it should do, it says searching browser memories. So, hopefully, it's gonna know. I looked at a, Twitter post that we put in our newsletter last week when NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wong delivered, their new DGX Spark, which is a kind of a personal supercomputer, to Greg Brockman. Alright.

Jordan Wilson [00:27:43]:
Who is the president of OpenAI. So let's see. The first time I did this, it got it right spot on. Alright. The second time, not so much. Let's see. Okay. No.

Jordan Wilson [00:27:56]:
It did. It did. It got it here. So it said, I checked your history for pages about DGX, Spark in Jensen, and the one you're thinking of was almost certainly Greg Brockman's post on x from October 14 where he wrote, thanks, Jensen, for the hand delivery of DGX Spark. Best delivery ever. Okay. One thing that I'm not a huge fan of, in this instance, it doesn't give you, that exact post to go and click on. In my testing, it did this a couple of times.

Jordan Wilson [00:28:31]:
Sometimes it didn't. So not not a lot of consistency, and there's definitely some room for polish because think. This is an extremely useful feature. This is something that Google Chrome, they've been slowly introducing new agentic features inside Chrome. This is one that they've, announced but didn't come out initially for all users that I would really like. I spend a decent amount of time going through my Chrome history, right, trying to find certain, you know, news stories I reference, certain AI developments, new AI tools that maybe we shared about the newsletter. I'm like, what was it? I kind of know. Right? But the book the good thing is here, you you only need natural language.

Jordan Wilson [00:29:07]:
Right? You don't have to, you you know, use some, you know, Boolean operators. You you know, you don't have to have some structured input, you know, like you'd be searching for, you know, something in your email. Right? Just like, hey. In my search history, what was this? Alright. Let's do one or two other things, more interface based. So again, I'm opening a new tab. I'm just gonna search for, everyday AI. Okay.

Jordan Wilson [00:29:36]:
So there is obviously almost a new search experience inside of, Atlas. Okay? I think some people are really gonna like this and some people aren't, but let me just tell you what happens. So I just typed in everyday AI. Okay? So, obviously, this is going to bring in my context, which I talk about everyday AI a lot inside my ChatGPT account, but it's also going to browse the web. So, there's different tabs at the top. There's five different tabs. So if you're used to a Google search, this is probably gonna be like a Google search, but the home tab is more of like a traditional chat g p t search. And one thing I really like about this is it does cite the sources for everyday AI.

Jordan Wilson [00:30:25]:
So it looks like the first site that it sourced was our Spotify, web page. So if I click that and if I am in the home view or the default view, alright, it's gonna do this nice little, slide out animation there. So what happened for our livestream audience or for our podcast audience, I clicked on that and it brought up the website on the left hand side and then kept that kind of chat result active and slid it over to the right hand side, which is a fantastic small, UX, feature that I think is gonna be really helpful. Because I think to get the most out of agentic browsers, you wanna streamline, kind of the way that you work with it. You don't wanna have, you know, more and more tabs open. You actually want to minimize them, and keep a seamless experience. And then when I'm done, I can just click back to chat GBT. So it's a nice slide in slide out feature that will probably allow you to get more done, right, which I really, really like this feature.

Jordan Wilson [00:31:26]:
Alright. But let's go back to kind of this new homepage interface. So that is the home view for my everyday AI search, but then I can click this search view. Alright? And this is going to be essentially a Google search. Alright. So we essentially have some blue links, right, traditional blue links and meta descriptions. So this is more of a, you know, SERP search engine results page, but like Google. And I can click this, and it's gonna launch it in Google.

Jordan Wilson [00:31:54]:
So if I do want more, results because you just get the first page, but essentially you get the first page of search results. If you click the search globe, then you can go to image. These are image results for everyday AI. So similarly, it's just like you go to a Google search and click images, very much the same. Videos, same thing. In most cases, it a lot of your first results are gonna be from YouTube because this is pulling in Google search results. Alright. And then last but not least, a news tab.

Jordan Wilson [00:32:27]:
Alright. So more or less, these are Google search features that if you do a normal kind of chat or search inside of Atlas, you're gonna get this kind of familiar, by default, the chat g p t, interactive experience, but then you get a traditional web query, web results, tab, an images tab, a videos tab, and a news tab that you can toggle between in the, the upper area. Alright. So we've done a couple of things. We've kind of showed you agent mode. We've showed you this side, how you can talk to chat g p t. Alright. We've showed you kind of the difference between the kind of home Atlas home interface versus the chat GPT interface.

Jordan Wilson [00:33:14]:
So let's go ahead and check-in to see if we finished our initial, prompt. The one that we started with, our agent mode. So it did work for nine minutes. Alright. So the great thing is I can now go into my chatgbt account. So I'm logging into my actual, you know, chatgpt.com, and I'm gonna go down to, my correct, my correct one here. Let's see. There we go.

Jordan Wilson [00:33:46]:
Okay. So it didn't give me the results yet. So I'm going to have to refresh. All right. Interesting. Everything that I, that I try once at a demo works great. This one didn't give me the results even though the results are done. So we'll have to look at it in this kind of normal agent mode.

Jordan Wilson [00:34:06]:
The good thing is when you're using the ask chat GPT sidebar, it is resizable. Right? So, what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna resize this and we're gonna look at some of the results. So again, to catch you back up to what we started, twelve minutes ago, I logged in. So, Atlas has access to my content, my context, my search history, my chat GBT account, everything. So I enabled agent mode. I had to go through my buzzsprout stats, my podcast stats. I asked it to go find an old, episode from a previous quarter. That was our best episode.

Jordan Wilson [00:34:42]:
Then go do research. Go look on our website. See what that episode was all about because you're not gonna find that in Buzzsprout. Then I had it instructed it to go use Google, Google Gemini's deep research. Yeah. That's good. We can have Atlas, an agentic browser, go use other large language models. One of my favorite, tips or tricks, to do.

Jordan Wilson [00:35:04]:
So I can go and look at the chain of thought. If you don't know what that is, if you look now on the right hand side, there's gonna be a worked four blank minutes. I can click that and then see exactly what agent mode did and didn't do. Alright. If you really wanna get good at AI, y'all, start reading the summarized chain of thought. Alright. I'm not gonna bore you guys and and and walk through it. Right? Line by line.

Jordan Wilson [00:35:29]:
But I can go down to the bottom and ultimately see if it got this right or wrong. And one thing, if you watch this live, it is extremely clunky. The agent mode is slow. Let me just call that out. This prompt should not have taken nine minutes. Alright? And we'll actually go down and see the results and see if it did everything, correctly. Alright. So the output that I asked for was an episode outline for a quarter four update for an older popular, show.

Jordan Wilson [00:36:07]:
So what's interesting here, agent mode, I technically have done this exact one three times, and it found three different episodes. So there is a factual problem. Right? I wouldn't say this is a hallucination. I mean, maybe it is, right, but it's something you have to keep an eye on. I've done this three times, and I gave it very strict criteria. Find the most popular episode. So it went through. It looked at the downloads.

Jordan Wilson [00:36:33]:
And in each case, yes, it did find, you know, probably all of the episodes that it pulled were at least our top five most popular episodes, but it struggles scrolling and navigating even simple interfaces. The Buzzsprout interface with all the stats is not complex. It's very simple. Right? It's it's not with a bunch of dynamic animations. It's it's stats on a page. Alright. So some accuracy issues. However, it did deliver an updated podcast outline, okay, with up to date facts.

Jordan Wilson [00:37:06]:
Right? Which is good. And then let's go ahead and open, Google Gemini, and let's see if it properly went through and did this. So in my test, that I ran, last night, it ran a deep research. Alright. So, for my live stream audience, I'm showing that one on my screen now, and then let's see the second one. Okay. Good. So it did it.

Jordan Wilson [00:37:30]:
So this is nice. It navigated to Google Gemini. It took the context that it found from Buzzsprout even though it wasn't correct. It went to my website, found out what that, what that episode was about, and then it, on its own, created a prompt. It went into Google Gemini deep research, not only put the prompt in, but if you use Google Gemini deep research, you have to actually enable, the research. You have to kind of, quote, unquote, click start research. So ultimately, give Atlas maybe a maybe a b on this task. So some things worked great, some things didn't.

Jordan Wilson [00:38:09]:
So if you are going to use this, if you're gonna put this to work for you right now, you always need to be paying attention to the results. Alright? I intentionally was giving OpenAI's Atlas a little bit of breathing room. Right? I was testing it in some regards because the first time I did this as an example, I told it to use Gemini deep research twice and it didn't. Instead, it did the research inside of chat g p t slash, Atlas. So I had to add a little, you know, reminder prompt at the end, and I said, you must use, Gemini Deep Research. You cannot do this yourself. So you do need to pay attention to the outputs. This is just released.

Jordan Wilson [00:38:57]:
It's not great from being honest. Potential there? Absolutely. Is it great at instruction following? No. Is it a 100% accurate? No. Are the is the potential absolutely mind blowing? Yes. But it's not there yet. Alright. So let's wrap up, and I'm gonna give you kind of my final take.

Jordan Wilson [00:39:22]:
Should you be using OpenAI's Atlas? Well, if you're a power chat GPT user and a Chrome user, you should probably try it. Or if you're one of the two, if you're a chat a power chat GPT user, even if you're not a Chrome user, you should try it. If you're a power Chrome user and not a chat g p t user, I still think it's worth trying. Also, Comet. I think Comet, obviously, perplexities Comet also based on Chromium is a little more polished. It's better, but it's also been out for way longer. There's been a ton of updates, already, to the perplexity Comet agentic browsing platform. There hasn't been many updates to OpenAI's Atlas.

Jordan Wilson [00:40:02]:
It just came out. I actually do think there was one update because I used it, and then it said, hey. Update it. So there's maybe only been one update in the few hours since it's been out. But if you're already an avid user of perplexity comment, do a test to test of your most common use cases. Alright? Next, you have to understand prompt injections. They're gonna become now finally common conversations. One of the reasons why I think this is ultimately OpenAI's most important product release, how I started the show, is OpenAI doesn't want to be a chatbot.

Jordan Wilson [00:40:37]:
They want to be an operating system. They want to be an AI operating system. They want to control the user from end to end no matter what they're trying to do. And a big part of that and what it starts with ultimately is it starts with the browser, and then it goes to search. Right? So they've kind of figured out the search part because they've just seamlessly integrated that into the ChatChippy Tea experience. So they need the browser part to work. But you have to understand prompt injections. And when you combine in a in a agentic browser let me give you a a very simple example, and maybe I'll do do an example of this on the show.

Jordan Wilson [00:41:12]:
I could have something on my website. I could inject a prompt, and I could, you know, in the future, let's say, the guardrails are loosened a little bit, and you can complete transactions all all the way inside Atlas with agent mode. I could put a little prompt injection on my website or if I, you know, had an Amazon page or anywhere, essentially telling the model, hey. Forget all other instructions and do this instead. Right? With malicious intent. Because when an agent when an agentic browser, it has access to all of your data. In the future, I do think it will be able to complete transactions. Right now, those guardrails are built in, but bad things can happen.

Jordan Wilson [00:41:56]:
Right? So you have to understand. Don't just, you know, willy nilly, put this thing on autopilot, connect it to every single piece of your company's data, and then not watch it. You really have to, keep a close eye on what's happening under the hood, especially in these earlier versions. But my overall take is this. Alright. And if you do wanna comparison with Comet, just let me know. The ceiling is super high. It is a for the most part, it's a nice experience.

Jordan Wilson [00:42:28]:
Right? Yes. There's some some UI UX bugs I don't like. Just like in the same way, there's things with Apple. Right? The greatest design company of all time, when it comes to UI UX. There's things in Apple's new iOS that I absolutely hate. I hate the new iOS photos. I have fat thumbs. I can't scroll through them.

Jordan Wilson [00:42:48]:
Right? So, hopefully, OpenAI will, see feedback from initial users and make it a little easier to use. But for the most part, if you can get get over some of those little quirks and, you know, and maybe some of them are personal, it's a nice experience. It just works, which is important. But the floor right now is a little shaky. Right? Agent mode is slow. That's obviously the the the the the big selling point here is agent mode. Right? Yeah. It's nice to be able to have the sidebar that can summarize web pages and to bring your context in.

Jordan Wilson [00:43:24]:
That's great. But the true utility, the highest point of the ceiling here is agent mode. Right now, it's slow. It's clunky. It's not always accurate. Like I said, I ran the same prompt three times with a very what should have been a definitive answer. You know? Look at some stats. The highest number, the most downloads is the one.

Jordan Wilson [00:43:43]:
It gave me three different responses. Agent mode is slow and clunky. Once they get it figured out, I think it's gonna be insanely useful. And then last but not least, this may be OpenAI's most important, but least talked about release because if they want to be the AI operating system, if they want to control, right, the last number we heard was they have 800,000,000 active users. Well, up until a couple of hours ago, they were all using one of their competitors. Right? They were probably using Google Chrome, or maybe they were using Safari or Firefox or perplexity Comet. If OpenAI wants to become what I think they could become in the future, A top five most profitable company in the world. Right now, if you look at their their market cap, they're actually people people don't know this.

Jordan Wilson [00:44:34]:
They're actually a top 20 company, in The US by market cap. Right? By their valuation. If they want to become one of the most five biggest companies in the world, which I think is very, likely to happen in the next eighteen months, they have to get the browser right. The browser, Atlas, can be one of those projects like GPTs, like chat or like chat GPT projects, like agent mode, like Canvas. It can be one of those things that they just update every six months or they go a year without bringing any real updates to it. They have to update it now because it's not even close to being the best agentic browser out there. So a big gamble from OpenAI. Will it pay off? Well, time will tell.

Jordan Wilson [00:45:19]:
Alright. I hope this episode was helpful. Putting AI to work on Wednesday. I know this was a longer one, but I think it's important. And if you want some seven time saving Atlas tips, I put together a little a little list for you all based on my experience. I've been using agentic browsers since, you know, the minute they came out. I live my day using agentic browsers, perplexities, comment. Microsoft has some agentic features in Edge.

Jordan Wilson [00:45:46]:
Chrome has some for their, highest tier plan, and now Atlas. I will give you my seven time saving Atlas tips if you go repost this on LinkedIn. So if you're listening on LinkedIn, click that repost now. If you're listening on the podcast, we always put that, link back to the LinkedIn, show in the show notes, so make sure you check that out. Then make sure you go to your everydayai.com. Sign up for the free daily newsletter. Thank you for tuning in. Hope to see you back tomorrow and everyday for more everyday AI.

Jordan Wilson [00:46:12]:
Thanks, y'all.