"According to Browser Company founders Josh Miller and Hersh Agrawal, their six-year-old biz will retain independence within Atlassian, and it intends to continue developing Dia, its "AI"-driven web browser that was talked up in May. Arc, The Browser Company's prior product that offered a fresh UI take on a web browser, was put into maintenance mode earlier this year after Miller predicted AI interfaces would replace traditional browsers within the next five years. Dia's main selling point appears to be that it simply adds a layer of AI abstraction between users and web pages."
"While Miller and Agrawal said Dia will remain their focus as an Atlassian subsidiary - and Arc won't be permanently put out to pasture - it appears the larger goal of the Atlassian-Browser Company union is to compete with Google to build what can only be described as a version of ChromeOS that's heavy on AI and designed for knowledge workers."
Atlassian purchased The Browser Company for $610 million in cash, with the deal expected to close in the second quarter of Atlassian's FY2026. The Browser Company will retain independence within Atlassian and continue developing Dia, its AI-driven web browser, while Arc has been placed into maintenance mode. Dia layers an AI abstraction between users and web pages, framing web content as tool calls with AI chat interfaces. The combined goal is to build a ChromeOS-like, AI-heavy cross-platform browser operating system aimed at knowledge workers and to compete with Google. Founders view the acquisition as advancing their cross-platform browser-as-an-OS vision.
Read at Theregister
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]