The Browser Company is officially killing its Arc browser on December 22. The move comes as no surprise, since the company has been focusing its resources on an AI browser called Dia. The organization is now encouraging Arc users to switch to Dia, and says that bookmarks, extensions, passwords and history will transfer over automatically.
To reassure customers who are wary of artificial intelligence, The Browser Company emphasizes that all of the new AI features are optional. Once Arc goes dark on December 22, users will no longer be able to access their accounts. Arc never quite caught on with the public, even though it offered people the ability to personalize any website while browsing.
Dia was first announced last year and is, more or less, a standard AI-based web browser. Its chatbot can understand context across multiple open tabs, and the app can summarize emails and YouTube videos. Each day it pulls together a "morning brief" that integrates data from calendars, inboxes and web links. It is, in short, a generative AI browser.
Source: Engadget · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing