List of features OpenAI's bringing to Atlas in the near future (www.neowin.net)

OpenAI this week shipped ChatGPT Atlas, an LLM-powered macOS browser that embeds ChatGPT everywhere — a sidebar for summarizing or analyzing pages, Agent Mode to let the model interact with websites on your behalf, text-field integration, and cross-session memory. At launch Atlas is functionally ambitious but missing many baseline browser features (no profiles, no extensions, no tab grouping, macOS-only), which limits password manager support, organization and broader rollout. That mix of advanced AI features and everyday gaps has provoked immediate feedback from power users and privacy-minded rivals (e.g., Vivaldi and Tor) who are resisting baked-in AI. OpenAI product lead Adam Fry published a short-term priority list addressing those gaps: multiprofile support, tab groups, a model picker in the Ask ChatGPT sidebar, opt-in ad blocking, fixes for text entry in Japan/Korea and captive Wi‑Fi portals, multiple tab attachments in chats, improved @mentions and shortcuts, better agent reliability (faster first messages, fewer under-triggers, pause state, chain-of-thought animation), and improved cloud Excel/Google Drive handling. Cross-platform Windows/Android builds remain “critical” but larger efforts. For the AI/ML community this matters because Atlas is a live experiment in tightly coupling LLMs to browser UX and web automation — improvements will influence expectations for LLM orchestration, agent robustness, privacy trade-offs, and how models are surfaced to end users.