The Browser Firm Unveils Dia, an AI-Powered Browser With In-Constructed Chatbot

The Browser Firm unveiled a brand new synthetic intelligence (AI) browser on Wednesday. Dubbed Dia, the brand new browser comes with an built-in AI chatbot that may entry info on varied tabs and help customers with their queries. The brand new browser comes eight months after the corporate introduced that it’s dropping help for the Arc browser attributable to difficulties in scaling it to a wider demographic. The AI-powered Dia browser is presently accessible in beta to pick out customers on Mac gadgets.

Dia Browser Is Accessible in Early Entry to Arc Members

In a submit on X (previously generally known as Twitter), the official deal with of Dia unveiled the brand new browser. Not like Arc, it doesn’t characteristic vertical tabs, however as an alternative has horizontal tabs on the high of the browser interface. Primarily based on its web site, Dia capabilities like a standard browser, with an added advantage of an AI chatbot situated on the appropriate facet panel.

First teased in December 2024, Dia’s AI chatbot is a centralised system built-in throughout all the browser. This implies customers can share a number of open tabs with it, and it could actually reply queries by utilizing info from all of them. In a brand new YouTube video, the corporate referred to as it a browser that already is aware of every thing so long as the data is current inside one of many tabs.

The AI chatbot can carry out a variety of duties, together with summarising net pages, rewriting emails and messages, analysing content material to reply queries about it, and extra. It might additionally summarise YouTube movies and share timestamps, create charts and tables evaluating completely different merchandise on completely different tabs, and even translate and clarify pages in a distinct language.

In a separate submit, the corporate revealed that it’s engaged on an experimental characteristic referred to as Historical past for Dia. Historical past is an opt-in characteristic (off by default) which lets customers ask queries concerning the tabs which have been opened up to now. As soon as the characteristic is activated, customers can entry this info by typing @Historical past within the textual content discipline. With this, customers can ask questions comparable to, “What movies did I watch yesterday?”

Notably, presently Dia is on the market in beta to Arc members as early entry. Dia solely helps macOS 14 and newer gadgets powered by Apple’s M1 chipset or newer. Arc members can obtain Dia right here and start utilizing the browser after creating a brand new Dia account utilizing their Arc e-mail tackle.