Sounds like the best thing that could happen to Firefox
OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience
Submitted 5 weeks 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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kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Unfortunately, Firefox is investing a ton of money into AI, too.
doodledup@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A desperate attempt of revenue diversification.
exu@feditown.com 5 weeks ago
Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
And it will loose Google’s deal money.
vivendi@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Mozilla works mainly on LOCAL AI not this corporate trash like closedAI
grue@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Has Mozilla indicated any openness to taking that approach with Firefox?
peterg75@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
this!
cley_faye@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 5 weeks 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.”
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Are these fucks stupid? Chromium is open sourced. They can do it themselves
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
They don’t want to buy the browser. They want to buy the brand and the users. Chrome makes up over half the browser market. Think of all the data they could extract from Chrome. It would cost significantly more to fork chromium and grow the user base to a point where they could extract anything valuable from them, and that’s assuming they’d be successful enough to make it happen.
mint_tamas@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There is no way Google would sell Chrome. But you can bet at least a thousand engineers are working on bolting Gemini onto it right now.
Saleh@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
No, MS just wants to expand their monopoly, but “MS buying most common browser, after antitrust laws already forbid internet explorer” doesnt ring so well.
futatorius@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I suspect Altman has ambitions beyond being Microsoft’s cat’s paw, though it may be that that’s all he really is once the shouting is over.
RickC137@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Existing userbase
TON618@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I like to think if people want whatever it is OpenAI thinks browsers need AI for, the userbase will manifest itself.
MITM0@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Suuuuure
11111one11111@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
I’m sure they’re less interested about buying Chrome than they are about buying Chrome’s market share
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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.
neclimdul@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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!
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Likely it’ll use the cloud for processing, you’ll just get really hard-to-opt-out AI features, like “prompt by default” and “AI autocomplete”, which you can only “snooze” as they’ll automatically be turned back on the moment there’s a “great new feature”, like putting a filter on by default on image generators to fool the eye that it’s made by real artists.
blinx615@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Chromium is open source? What a concept…
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
don’t they already have brave for that?
madis@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
What does Brave have to do with it? It doesn’t even have ChatGPT’s models as an option.
Fenrir@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Validating my years old decision to use Firefox
scarabic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
When a company considers buying Chrome because it could help them extend the reach of their product, they are fucking drunk and need to go home. This would be like buying the state of Nevada so you could put up billboards all over Las Vegas.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
WTF? Just download it for free.
msage@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Isn’t Google going to do it themselves?
uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.
FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Chrome or Chromium project?
rippersnapper@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I’ve said this before and will say it again. The only tech companies that should be allowed to buy Chrome are Canonical and its equivalents.
simsalabim@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Isn’t Canonical up to some crummy schemes, too?
crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Sure but not by at least an order of magnitude
futatorius@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
And if you thought there was some natural end point to enshittification, here’s your evidence that there’s no such thing.
shiroininja@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Good thing I’ve never used the garbage that is chrome or chatgpt 👍
futatorius@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Well, killing off Chrome would probably be a good thing.
sucrerey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
we had an intern ask AI what it could to to completely enshittify the browser. the AI simply responded, “put me in coach!”
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Chome is already dead… it’s just a zombie.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yes please
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
To check if your subscription to their models is still valid of course
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
And send back telemetry and training data.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Browsing the internet will be like playing AI Quake II, you’ll think you are in this alternate universe.
vane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Why use head if you can use ChatGPT. Remove head and start working smarter.
vivendi@programming.dev 5 weeks 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
Dumhuvud@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
How do Sam
Conman’sAltman’s boots taste?thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Generally speaking, people used ChatGPT back when it first came out, had a bad experience and never fucked with it again, so their understanding of it is frozen in time. Most people know next to nothing about the current state of AI unless you’re a researcher or enthusiast. They’re completely unprepared for the actual state of the industry.