Inside OpenAI’s Agentic Browser, Atlas

Rhea Purohit interviews Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher — both Chrome veterans now at OpenAI — about Atlas, OpenAI’s agentic browser. The conversation covers what it means to build a browser that autonomously performs web tasks on a user’s behalf and the implications for the open web. The podcast format surfaces product strategy thinking about when agents should browse for you versus when you should browse yourself.

RDCO mapping: Relevant to our understanding of agentic interfaces. Atlas represents a different paradigm from our MCP-based tool-calling approach — browser agents that navigate the web visually rather than through APIs. Worth tracking how this affects the “agent-as-employee” model we operate.