OpenAI's new web browser, Atlas, has been available for less than two weeks — and only on Apple computers, for now — but it's getting a lot of attention .

That's because it's a new kind of browser in a market dominated by Google Chrome. And it comes from OpenAI, the leader in AI chatbots, at a time when artificial intelligence is starting to give traditional web search a run for its money .

"We think that AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to re-think what a browser can be about," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a livestream to launch the browser.

Atlas comes with ChatGPT baked in, and while it can navigate the web like traditional browsers, the company says it can do much more. A feature that OpenAI calls "agentic mode" can take action, like an agent who can shop

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