Great! Now not only can chrome eat all my system memory, it can use all my GPU memory at the same time! It’s genius!
OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience
Submitted 18 hours ago by neme@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/chatgpt-head-tells-court-openai-is-interested-in-buying-chrome/
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neclimdul@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Why connect to the Internet with it then. The browser could just make everything up on the fly.
Got questions about a medication?
Maybe you want to check up on some disease symptoms?
AI can make something that sounds vaguely plausible.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 hours ago
Why connect to the Internet with it then
To check if your subscription to their models is still valid of course
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
And send back telemetry and training data.
vane@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Why use head if you can use ChatGPT. Remove head and start working smarter.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Browsing the internet will be like playing AI Quake II, you’ll think you are in this alternate universe.
vivendi@programming.dev 6 hours ago
I don’t fucking understand why Lemmy is permanently stuck in 2023 with AI
Using RAG (retrieval augmented generation) results in much lower, almost negligible confabulation rates
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Sounds like the best thing that could happen to Firefox
grue@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Mozilla spinning off control of its development to an independent group the way they did with Thunderbird would be the best thing that could happen to Firefox.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird :
Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.
Chrome self-destructing because of stupidity like AI would only ever manage to be a close second, at best.
compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
Has Mozilla indicated any openness to taking that approach with Firefox?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Unfortunately, Firefox is investing a ton of money into AI, too.
Bazimon@lemm.ee 55 minutes ago
Look into Waterfox instead.
doodledup@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
A desperate attempt of revenue diversification.
exu@feditown.com 14 hours ago
Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.
vivendi@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Mozilla works mainly on LOCAL AI not this corporate trash like closedAI
Engywuck@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
And it will loose Google’s deal money.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Firefox, the software mainly driven by Mozilla, which is heavily investing in AI and ads ventures? That Firefox?
But, maybe “it will be different this time”, I guess.
peterg75@discuss.online 18 hours ago
this!
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 16 hours ago
OpenAI is like a zombie stumbling around trying to infect everything. We shove it away because it’s fuckin’ gross and we want nothing to do with it, while the bosses that reanimated it are like “well fuck, we made this thing, we have to use it for something.”
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
don’t they already have brave for that?
madis@lemm.ee 30 minutes ago
What does Brave have to do with it? It doesn’t even have ChatGPT’s models as an option.
uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
This can’t happen. Not because I think google is doing a wonderful job, but it’s got serious market share now. Basically a monopoly. It needs to leave the hands of for profit companies and be transitioned to a foundation.
blinx615@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Chromium is open source? What a concept…
11111one11111@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
How the fuck would this be more cost effective than them making their own chrome based browser and not be a demonstration of their over inflated operating costs and company valuation?
If you are paying for a service that is charging you enough to allow them to buy the most widly used browser from a company whose business model is to monopolize data, then maybe you’re paying them a titbit more than what the service they’re providing is worth.
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’m sure they’re less interested about buying Chrome than they are about buying Chrome’s market share
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
What allows them to buy chrome is ridiculous investment money, not what they’re charging. From what I read, I think they’re still running a loss because required processing power is still just so insanely ridiculous for AI.
FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
Chrome or Chromium project?
shiroininja@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Good thing I’ve never used the garbage that is chrome or chatgpt 👍
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yes please
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 21 minutes ago
Are these fucks stupid? Chromium is open sourced. They can do it themselves
RickC137@lemmy.world 13 minutes ago
Existing userbase