OWL

How we built OWL, the new architecture behind our ChatGPT-based browser, Atlas

OpenAI published a technical deep dive into OWL, the architecture underpinning ChatGPT Atlas, a new Chromium-based browser. The post covers how OWL decouples Chromium internals to enable fast startup, rich UI rendering, and agentic browsing capabilities integrated with ChatGPT. This represents OpenAI's move into the browser layer as an agentic interface, extending ChatGPT's reach into web navigation and task execution.