Why Wasn't OpenAI's Atlas Agent a Big Selling Point?

James Sun says the agent inside OpenAI's Atlas was not a big selling point, because most people treated Atlas like a normal browser.

He joined OpenAI in January to work on Atlas. Not many people used the agent. Over the last few months, better models let the team fold browser use into existing products that already had agent use. Growth has run at a Y Combinator level week over week, and the speed still surprises him. Desktop computer use is still a power user habit. Most consumers are on their phones.

The next inflection is the cloud. The goal is to give every person who lives on a phone a powerful computer they do not need to learn, so the computer just makes things work.