"You might not spend a lot of time thinking about your web browser, whether it's Safari, Chrome, or something else. But the decades-old piece of software remains a pretty important canvas for getting things done. That's why Tara Feener, who spent years developing creative tools with companies such as Adobe, WeTransfer, and Vimeo, decided to join the Browser Company and within two years became head of engineering, overseeing its AI-forward Dia browser."
"Whereas a conventional browser presents you with a search box on its home screen, Dia will either answer your query with AI or route it to a traditional search based on what you write. You can also ask for information from your open tabs or have Dia intelligently sort them into groups. Several of these features have since found their way into more mainstream browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge,"
"Dia can already do things like analyze your history for trends and draft messages in Gmail. Feener says her team has never felt more creative coming up with things to do next. "With Dia, we have context, we have memory, we have your cookies, so we actually own the entire layer," she says. "Just like TikTok gets better with every swipe, every time you open something in Dia, we learn something about you.""
Dia is an AI-forward web browser that answers queries directly or routes them to traditional search, accesses open tabs for information, and intelligently groups tabs. The browser can analyze browsing history for trends and draft messages in Gmail, using cookies, memory, and other context to personalize behavior. Several Dia features have been adopted by mainstream browsers, and Atlassian acquired the Browser Company and Dia for $610 million to pursue an AI browser for knowledge workers. Other AI firms are moving into browsers, including Perplexity’s Comet and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas. The platform treats browsing as a rich source of context for assistants.
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