Guillermo Rauch says Vercel's next bet is hosting the web's growing swarm of AI agents in an "AI cloud."

W ith the wave of new AI-powered web browsers launching in 2025—from Google , Microsoft , OpenAI , Perplexity, and more—it's hardly shocking that Opera has joined the race with its own entrant, Neon. As PCMag's resident AI expert, I wanted to see whether Neon truly stands out in this crowded field.

ChatGPT Atlas is a free internet browser that can regurgitate browser history, provide writing help and complete basic ordered tasks.

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Comet, Dia, and ChatGPT Atlas are a new wave of browsers that put AI at the center of all user activity. Google and Microsoft are also adapting to the shift, easing the whole experience while raising the risks,

The Atlas browser isn’t the only AI-first product out there—Perplexity, for instance, launched its Comet browser earlier this year. But Atlas may pose a serious threat to Google ’s dominant Chrome browser, which plays a central role in the company’s advertising business model.

AI companyy said the new browser is now available on Apple laptops that run on macOS and will expand to other platforms soon.

Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox and several major banks offline.

Amazon’s cloud-computing arm plans to invest an additional $5 billion in South Korea over the next six years to build new artificial-intelligence data centers in the country.