Google Chrome is about to have a rival

The Information said: NLWeb is designed to deliver a great experience by leveraging the power of AI, especially ChatGPT, which helps tasks to be performed more intelligently and efficiently.

From there, users can search for information, answers and complete tasks faster than normal search.

This is OpenAI's new move to compete directly with Google Chrome - which currently accounts for more than 66% of the global browser market share. Coming in second is Safari with 20% (according to data from StatCounter).

OpenAI is known to have worked with many major website developers as well as recruited many veteran engineers from Google Chrome. With its existing AI platform and talented staff, OpenAI hopes to create a big push in the web browser market.

The US Department of Justice is also pressuring Google to sell Chrome to prevent a monopoly in the search industry, so if OpenAI’s project is approved, the browser market could soon see a drastic change.

The official launch date of NLWeb has not been announced yet.