# OpenAI — How we built OWL, the new architecture behind our ChatGPT-based browser, Atlas

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-10-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/building-chatgpt-atlas
- Record: https://forck.live/items/402-how-we-built-owl-the-new-architecture-behind-our-chatgpt-based-browser-atlas

OpenAI describes OWL, a new architecture for ChatGPT Atlas that decouples Chromium to enable fast startup, rich UI, and agentic browsing.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/building-chatgpt-atlas:

> A deep dive into OWL, the new architecture powering ChatGPT Atlas—decoupling Chromium, enabling fast startup, rich UI, and agentic browsing with ChatGPT.

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