A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.

OpenAI’s browser is built atop Chromium, Google’s own open-source browser code, two of the sources said. Chromium is the source code for Google Chrome, as well as many competing browsers including Microsoft’s MSFT.O Edge and Opera OPRA.O.

Perplexity’s new Comet web browser was built on a foundation of privacy. Learn about Comet’s other key features and availability.

If OpenAI does start offering users access to its own browser, it would be following Perplexity, which released a browser with agentic AI functions on Wednesday. That browser, Comet, is currently only available to those with a $200 per month Perplexity Max subscription. Opera also released a "fully agentic" browser back in May.

A new investigation has revealed 245 browser extensions, installed on almost a million devices, have been leading a double life, as besides the operations they were designed for, they were also silently disabling key security protections in the browsers to enable paid web scraping operations.

Think Dia's just for shopping? You're in for a surprise - there's so much more it can do, and I'm excited about what's still to come.