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Happy Thursday, AI family, and welcome to another AI Valley edition. This issue takes 4 minutes to read.

Today’s climb through the Valley reveals:

• The AI browser war has officially begun

• An opinionated guide to using AI right now

• Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

The AI browser war has officially begun with OpenAI’s release of Atlas

OpenAI has officially launched Atlas, a new web browser built right on top of ChatGPT. Now the assistant can literally see what you’re looking at and take actions on websites using automated agent-style workflows. This comes after months of hints from OpenAI adding browsing and memory to ChatGPT. Atlas basically wraps all of that into one native browser experience.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• ChatGPT sits in a sidebar and works across whatever webpage you’re on

• It can remember how you browse and use that to tailor replies or even automate stuff you do often

• It can see the page you’re on and guide you right in a side chat (way quicker than screenshotting stuff into ChatGPT)

• ChatGPT can auto-click, move around sites, and finish actions for you (Plus and Pro users get this now)

• It can watch YouTube videos live and break them down in real time

• The new tab page lets you search, summarize, compare, and research without jumping to other tools

• It’s out now on macOS for Free, Plus, Pro, Go, Business (beta), Enterprise, and Edu users. Windows, iOS, and Android versions are on the way

Atlas runs on Chromium (same engine as Chrome and Edge), so it feels familiar like using Chrome, but with ChatGPT baked right in and acting as an actual agent. Chromium itself contains roughly 36 million lines of code, giving Atlas a mature foundation from day one. In fact, building a full-scale browser engine from scratch can be even more challenging than developing a new AI model (unless we’re talking GPT-level power).

So yeah, Atlas is basically a Chromium browser infused with ChatGPT Agent powers (kind of like Perplexity’s Comet), but with deeper OpenAI integration.

Why does it matter?

This move sets the stage for three major shifts:

• Head-to-head competition with Google in search and discovery. Alphabet’s stock actually dropped after the news.

• Huge potential for OpenAI to make money through ads and automated shopping, entering the browser game could unlock Google/Meta-level revenue.

OpenAI has now:

• Become the world’s most valuable private company

• Launched a direct challenger to Chrome

• Secured over $750B+ in compute and infrastructure deals across Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, TSMC, Oracle, Broadcom, and more

• Signed a $500B Stargate data center agreement

OpenAI, which started as a nonprofit, is quickly turning into the core backbone of global tech infrastructure.

On top of that, they’ve quietly hired over 100 ex–Wall Street bankers from firms like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley. Under a project called “Project Mercury,” contractors are getting paid $150/hour to train ChatGPT on financial modeling using real prompts and building Excel-style models for IPOs, mergers, and restructurings.

TRENDING TOOLS

• Delve AI > Stop spending hours on security forms. Delve’s AI completes SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR for you, the smart way. Use code AIVALLEY1K to get $1,000 off *

• Atlas > OpenAI’s new web browser built with AI at its core, designed to think and navigate with you

• Veo 3.1 > Turn ideas into cinematic stories with hyper-realistic visuals that feel alive

• Fish Audio > Create expressive voice clones and generate speech with human-like nuance

• Logic, Inc. > Automate repetitive decisions using plain English

• Director > Lovable for web automations

• Claude Code (Web) > Anthropic’s AI coding assistant is now accessible directly in your browser

• Compyle > An AI coding agent that doesn’t just output code, it collaborates with you like a real teammate

THINK PIECES / BRAIN BOOST

• An opinionated guide to using AI right now

• Superintelligence research ban urged by 800+ global figures, including Nobel laureates

• China's AI user base hits 515M, doubling in just six months

• I was once an AI true believer. Now I think the whole thing is rotting from the inside

• AI is making us work more

• Google DeepMind’s free AI Foundations Course (with UCL) teaches you to build and fine-tune language models with hands-on coding labs

• Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents

THE VALLEY GEMS

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THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY

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