"What does this all mean? First, it means OpenAI is coming for the browser market. That's a direct challenge to search services, including Google's, but is also an attempt to become the primary interaction tool most people use every day when they are online. That's going to equate to market share, of course, but it will also generate vast quantities of data."
"If you think about using browsers in a physically contextual sense, that means from the day you first use a computer browser at pre-school to the day you finally close it down for the very last time, you will be giving OpenAI (or some company) lots of personal data, including your likes, dislikes, questions. Over time, your browser will learn who you are, and could eventually become something of a digital twin."
OpenAI's browser operates in agentic mode for tasks like research, analysis, automation, and event planning, with some features behind a paywall. The browser positions itself as a direct competitor to search services and aims to become the primary online interaction tool for everyday users. That strategy will shift market share toward OpenAI and generate extensive datasets from user interactions. Continuous use across a person's lifetime would accumulate detailed personal information—preferences, questions, and behaviors—allowing the browser to build increasingly accurate user models. Over time these models could function as persistent digital twins that mirror individual tendencies and choices.
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