OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience

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OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience

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Why not fork their own browser?
- They buy all couple billion existing users as well, and the stronger branding of Chrome
  
  This is the answer, but unless they want to be a browser company (not impossible) I doubt they will maintain it as well as Google. Likewise, Chrome was a loss leader designed to funnel users into Google's profitable ventures of advertising and search, but apparently OpenAI does not have a profitable sector whatsoever.
  Mitigating factor: OpenAI leverages its ownership of Chrome to funnel users into Bing for money.
  
  I think OpenAI is creating their own search, that's probably the end goal to make that the default on Chrome and have chatgpt as a default extension too
- Because it's a stock price grift and forking a browser doesn't juice the line like announcing you might buy the browser used by 65% of the world at sell-off prices due to a monopoly ruling. They won't buy it. And even if they did all that would happen is that it would immeadiately hemorrage users to its competitors because people use Chrome because it's a Google default, not some weird increasingly broken AI niche thing that the company can't even afford to run.
- Know a guy that didn't even know what Firefox was a few years ago when I asked why he was still using Chrome.
  
  Did this person wake up from a coma and completely skip the 00’s?
  
  He is in his late 40s and still really into stoner culture so kind of. Also the biggest blue MAGA I personally know, I remember joking about Hillary running again and he gave an non-ironic "Hell yeah".
  
  Late 40s and stoner culture checks out. I’m happy to be part of the generation that uses weed as a crutch, not a personality lol.
  
  part of the generation that uses weed as a crutch

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