To jest zloto... #TheBrowserCompany, ci od porzuconej przegladarki #Arc, wrzucili nowy filmik reklamujacy #Dia - ich nowa przegladarke, ktora jako jedna z pierwszych na wieksza skale miala wykorzystywac #AI. Miala bo nie jestem pewien czy w koncu wyszla z bety, jako pelnoprawna wersja 1.0. Stosunek lapek w gore do lapek w dol to 21/43 (a bylo 3/13 xD ), a do tego... komentarze pod filmem sa wylaczone. 🤣
Czyzby zaczelo ich za bardzo szczypac, ze prawie pod kazdym filmem ludzie im wyrzucaja, ze porzucili Arc'a? 🤔🤣
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Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company
Atlassian acquires The Browser Company in a 610 million dollar deal to develop AI browser Dia focused on work productivity.https://www.olamnews.com/business/1445/atlassian-acquires-the-browser-company/
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Atlassian compra The Browser Company per $610M 🚀 Finisce l'era di Arc, inizia quella di Dia, il browser AI per il lavoro 🧠 Un'exit strategica che sposta la sfida da Chrome ai tool di produttività, segnando il futuro dei browser agentic 🤖 #Atlassian #TheBrowserCompany #DiaBrowser
https://www.melamorsicata.it/2025/09/05/atlassian-acquisizione-browser-company-dia/
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The Verge: The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired. “Mike Cannon-Brookes, the CEO of enterprise software giant Atlassian, was one of the first users of the Arc browser. Over the last several years, he has been a prolific bug reporter and feature requester. Now he’ll own the thing: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company, the New York-based startup that makes both Arc […]
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Time to delete my account. #thebrowsercompany https://narrativ.es/@janl/115146803987979219
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I’m not an expert, but I have a strong feeling that #Atlassian just wasted $600 million bucks; it’s either that or #TheBrowserCompany doesn’t exist in 2 years and they spent a pile of cash on employee acquisition.
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The Browser Company, die den Arc Browser (und ja auch Dia) entwickelt, wurde von Atlassian gekauft :/
Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass diese beiden Firmenkulturen gut zusammen funktionieren. Immerhin soll Arc erstmal weiterentwickelt werden.
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#Atlassian is acquiring #TheBrowserCompany, maker of #Arc and #Dia browsers, for $610 million. The acquisition is primarily driven by Dia, a #browser with #AIcapabilities that integrates with various apps, aligning with Atlassian’s suite of work applications. https://www.theverge.com/web/770947/browser-company-arc-dia-acquired-atlassian?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/atlassian-acquires-the-browser-company
#HackerNews #TheBrowserCompany #Atlassian #Acquisition #TechNews #StartupUpdates #WebDevelopment
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Holy Crap! This is the news I saw when I came into work today - https://www.theverge.com/web/770947/browser-company-arc-dia-acquired-atlassian #Atlassian #ARC #DIA #TheBrowserCompany
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テっちゃんがあらためてこういう意見を表明したのは、AI が自律的に Web ブラウザーを操作するようなより踏み込んだかたちで AI が組み込まれたブラウザー（ #Perplexity の #Comet とか、 #Arc というブラウザーを作ってた #TheBrowserCompany の #Dia とか） が出てきたり、それによってメジャーなブラウザーも同様の AI 機能を組み込む可能性が出てきたことに起因してるような気がしている。
実際、記事の中でも
> 業界を見回すと、人工的なアシスタントがブラウザに直接埋め込まれるようになっており、答えを得るための近道のように提案されています。Google はページの内容を要約するために Chrome に Gemini を組み込んでいますが、ごく近い将来、ユーザーの代わりにタブを操作し、サイトをナビゲートする機能も追加されるでしょう。Microsoft は画面に表示される内容をスキャンし、ユーザーの行動を予測する新しいモードを含む AI ブラウザとしての Edge を推進しています。
と書いているし。
ちなみにこのあとに続く言葉として
> このような動きは、アドレスバーは単なる AI への指示入力欄となり、ユーザーの探索する喜びを無気力な傍観に変えてしまいます。
と書いていて、「無気力な傍観（英語の原文では "inactive spectatorship" ）」という表現はなかなか秀逸な表現だなとおもった。
Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser
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Perplexity’s offer to buy chrome is well… perplexing
It also would help it raise a bigger funding round itself, boosting its own valuation:
> “Perplexity’s offer is significantly more than its own valuation, which is estimated at $18 billion. The company told The Wall Street Journal that several investors including large venture-capital funds had agreed to back the transaction in full.”
Of course, Google itself is going to fight tooth and nail to not sell Chrome, which has become something like the successor to the once-dominant Microsoft Internet Explorer. Just as Internet Explorer once had a chokehold on the whole web, Chrome has an outsized influence on which features make it into the web platform.
> “In testimony this year, Pichai told the judge that forcing the company to sell it or share data with rivals would harm Google’s business, deter it from investing in new technology and potentially create security risks. Chrome has roughly 3.5 billion users worldwide and accounts for more than 60% of the global browser market.”
It’ll be interesting to see what happens here. We don’t know if the judge will force a Chrome sale, and if it does, there will surely be other offers. (And perhaps it could strike a deal with an open source org like Mozilla to prevent a competitor from creating business risk for it.) But it’s a clear indication of the position Perplexity would like to take in the ecosystem — not just in AI, but in all of tech.
fair warning: I am biased. I love the web. I believe that the web is the one remaining platform that doesn’t have a traditional gatekeeper and AI is one of those technologies that might actually keep the one existing potential gatekeeper at bay. I’ve also played a role in making chrome successful. From 2012 – 2017, I built up chrome’s media stack and video codec strategy – building the media platform into the juggernaut that it is today.
This doesn’t mean I am not critical of chrome. Heck, during its memory hogging days, I was an internal champion shouting from the rooftops making sure that it will continue to be a good steward of the resources.
But, it’s 2025. If there’s one thing that we must all admit, it’s that Google’s stewardship of Chrome is one of the best by any company for such a mission critical platform and software.
Perplexity is many things. I personally think they are thinking about search in a novel way and bringing innovation to the fore. However, I urge you to try comet. You will (likely) agree with me that they are not the strongest candidate for a steward of a great web platform.
The fact that they are trying to buy chrome and eventually gut them into another comet also suggests that they don’t understand what needs to be done to be a strong steward of the web.
Here are some things that would have made them be serious:
- Convince and form a consortium: perplexity, openai, microsoft, amazon, meta, etc.
- Work to develop a non profit entity that will assume chromium along with guaranteed funding and developers to maintain chromium ad infinitum.
- Innovate on the default search engine setup so that you can have diff skins on chromium and allow dia, comet and whatever open-ai is cooking up to all have the best experience
- innovate on how AI agents actually work in a privacy preserving way – in fact the company has actually gone the exact opposite way
Chrome innovated on federated learning to ensure double blind privacy. I know that google gets shit for not being privacy focused. Again, caveat – I used to work there – people inside Google and Chrome were some of the most privacy conscious people who will work and fight hard against any privacy encroaching movement in the API, Platform or Google-code.
All to say – it will be a horrible day for chrome to end up with perplexity alone. I don’t trust them, even when I think they are actually making strong improvements to search.
#browser #chrome #chromium #comet #dia #edge #firefox #google #kagi #microsoft #mozilla #openai #orion #perplexity #search #thebrowsercompany #web #webPlatform #zen
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TechCrunch: The Browser Company launches a $20 monthly subscription for its AI-powered browser. “The Browser Company has launched a Pro subscription plan for Dia, its new web browser that heavily integrates AI features. The plan costs $20 per month and provides unlimited access to Dia’s AI-powered chat and skills features.”
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It was a shock to suddenly go from new features and Josh talking about a new era of Arc on a weekly podcast to absolute radio silence with just some whispers here and there, and a product that was hard to see the direction on. Personally, I think this is were the mess up was
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I get that The Browser Company had to pivot to Dia since it has AI much more baked into the product.
I can't still understand why it couldn't have been an addition to the current Arc. Why can't the capabilities of Dia be baked into a right side panel in Arc?
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AI Browsers: Dia’s Chat-Based UI and the Future of the Web, by @ricmac (@TheNewStack):
https://thenewstack.io/ai-browsers-dias-chat-based-ui-and-the-future-of-the-web/
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#Dia: Neuer KI-#Browser der #Arc-Macher geht in die Betaphase | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Dia-Neuer-KI-Browser-der-Arc-Macher-geht-in-die-Betaphase-10441295.html #DiaBrowser #ArcBrowser #ArtificialIntelligence #Webbrowser #TheBrowserCompany
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Um, don't know what to tell you #DiaBrowser, this is my email address.
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The Browser Company is ending development of Arc and launching its new AI-based browser, #dia now available in an invite-only beta for Mac users. This marks a strategic shift away from the discontinued Arc browser toward an AI-integrated browsing experience.
However, if you join the waitlist and select ARC as your main browser in the survey, you'll get instant access to the beta version. I'm currently testing it.
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#TheBrowserCompany zapowiedzialo na jutro start beta testow #Dia. Pod filmem jest wiecej lapek w dol niz w gore, a komentarze, zrownujace firme z ziemia, to czyste zloto 😂
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The Register: Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia. “AI is rapidly reshaping how we use the web, or so The Browser Company founder Josh Miller argues. That belief helped drive his team’s decision to stop building new features for its Arc browser and shift focus to an ‘AI browser’ dubbed Dia.”
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Voilà, avec l'annonce de #TheBrowserCompany d'abandonner le développement de #Arc au profit d'un engouffrement dans l' #IA (pour rappel, c'est un buzzword marketing, un LLM n'a pas une once d'intelligence), j'ai migré sur #VivaldiBrowser ! Je me ferai à la perte des workspaces compartimentés pour retourner sur une gestion multi profils avec plusieurs fenêtres
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#Vivaldi :vivaldi_red: を 10 年以上使っていると、何年ごしで解決されるバグとか数年前からいまも解決されていない小さなバグとかを見つけることは珍しいことではないんだけど、それでも :vivaldi_red: を使い続ける理由は、Vivaldi 社が :vivaldi_red: を改善しつづけてくれるだろうという信頼感を自分が持ってるからで、その信頼ってある意味いまのプロダクトの機能以上に大事なもののような気がした。
そういう観点で #TheBrowserCompany の CEO の以下の言葉を読むと
> “For most people, Arc was simply too different, with too many new things to learn, for too little reward […] On top of that, Arc lacked cohesion in both its core features and core values. It was experimental, that was part of its charm, but also its complexity,”
> “ほとんどの人にとって、Arc はあまりにも（慣れたブラウザーの操作性と）異なっており、学ぶべき新しいことが多すぎて、それに対する報酬が少なすぎました [...] それに加えて、Arc はその核となっている機能と価値観の両方において一貫性を欠いていました。（Arcは）実験的であり、それは魅力でもあると同時に（デメリットとしての）複雑さがありました」”
これって、内容だけをみれば「まあそういう部分もたしかにあるよね」とは思うけど、 #Arc のユーザーの立場で読むと「それは Arc を作るときからわかっていたのでは？」って感じるし、#Arc の開発をストップする理由としては、なんというか腑に落ちづらい言葉なんじゃないかな…と思った。
まあ、無料でブラウザーを提供し続けるってなかなかできることではないだろうし、 #TheBrowserCompany のビジネスとしての判断もあるのかなーと邪推する部分もあるけど、いまのところは Dia に対する期待よりも Arc の喪失感のほうが大きそう。 -
なるほど、 #ArcBrowser の開発元の #TheBrowserCompany は Dia という新しい AI ブラウザーの開発をやりたい（というかやっている）、そして #ArcBrowser は売却もしくはオープンソース化が検討されていると。
ただ、その Dia の開発にも使われている技術の一部は #Arc のコードにも含まれていて、それが #Arc のオープンソース化などの障壁になっていて、どうしたもんかなーみたいな状態、ということなのかな。
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Fokus auf Dia: #ArcBrowser erhält keine neuen Funktionen mehr | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Arc-The-Browser-Company-erwaegt-Verkauf-oder-Open-Sourcing-10411421.html #DiaBrowser #Browser #Webbrowser #ArtificialIntelligence #TheBrowserCompany
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Sigh. Someone finally designs a web browser that actually innovates the interface in extremely useful ways and they abandon it for AI junk.
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Arc 浏览器开发商宣布新浏览器 Dia，以 AI 特性作为卖点。
https://www.diabrowser.com/
#TheBrowserCompany
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The company behind #Arc is building a new AI web browser called #Dia
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/2/24310944/dia-ai-browser-video-arc-the-browser-company
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You know, this *might* end up being pretty interesting
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Mobile browser Arc Search is now generally available on Android
Following an October beta release for Android, mobile browser, Arc Search, hit general availability Thursday.
Its developer, The Browser Company, is known for its desktop browser Arc. To reach more users and employ AI-based search, the company launched Arc Search for iOS earlier this year. The new version will possibly open up Arc Search’s reach to millions of Android users.
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Ich teste ja gerne neues Zeugs... 🫣 Da #TheBrowserCompany nicht mehr viel in ihren #Arc Browser investiert, bin ich ja gespannt, ob #DetaSurf zu einer Alternative wird... https://deta.surf/
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Playing around with #MacOS #browser options since the recent announcement from #TheBrowserCompany about #Arc. Right now I’m liking #Vivaldi for the way it handles profiles but I’m curious if anyone else has a favorite. #Orion looks interesting. #Firefox is solid but doesn’t handle containers quite like I want. Any suggestions?
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#TheBrowserCompany--the startup behind the #Arc #browser--has decided to build a new #AI-centric #webBrowser
> We have fallen in love with #LLMs and the potential of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9yZ0JusME4
#web #arc #llm #artificialIntelligence #genAI #generativeAI #chatGPT #openAI #browsers
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The Browser Company, the startup behind the alternative web browser Arc, announced on Thursday it’s launching its Arc Search browser on Android in open beta in a move to become a cross-platform app.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/04/the-browser-company-launches-arc-search-on-android/
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Arc Browser jetzt auch für das iPad optimiert
Der Arc Browser, entwickelt von The Browser Company, ist bekannt für sein Versprechen, ein ruhigeres und persönlicheres Internet-Erlebnis zu bieten. Nun wurde der innovative Webbrowser endlich für das iPad ang
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/arc-browser-jetzt-auch-fuer-das-ipad-optimiert/
#iPad #News #ArcBrowser #InternetErlebnis #iPad #KnstlicheIntelligenz #TabletOptimierung #TheBrowserCompany #TrackerBlocker #Webbrowser #Werbeblocker
