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OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience
(arstechnica.com)
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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