The Dia browser is a big bet on the web — and an even bigger bet on AI

Dia, the caller browser from The Browser Company, is astir thing similar the company's last product. That app, Arc, was a full rethink of however browsers work: it moved tabs to the broadside and combined them with bookmarks, it offered endless ways to signifier each your stuff, and it had tons of ideas astir however to marque your web surfing a small much delightful.

Dia volition get immoderate of that worldly successful time, The Browser Company's CEO Josh Miller tells me. The app that's launching contiguous for existing Arc users is precise overmuch inactive a beta (and lone disposable connected Mac). But nary of that worldly is the constituent of Dia anyway. The constituent of Dia, helium says, is to bring artificial quality to the precise halfway of practically everything you bash online. The app's cardinal diagnostic is simply a chat instrumentality that is capable to look astatine each website you visit, entree each tract you're logged into, and assistance you find information, get worldly done, and navigate the web a small much easily.

The app itself, which I've been investigating for a while, is incredibly elemental to understand. Imagine Chrome, lone with acold much plan polish and much playful animations. Now ideate a sidebar connected the close broadside that contains a ChatGPT-like chatbot, which yo …

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