The Future of A.I. Chatbots
Is A.I. the Future of Web Browsing? by Brian Chen (2025) discusses a new web browser app that is powered by generative artificial intelligence.
I recently tried Dia, a new kind of web browser from the Browser Company of New York, a start-up. The app is powered by generative artificial intelligence, the technology driving popular chatbots like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, to answer our questions. Dia illuminates how a web browser can do much more than load websites — and even help us learn and save time.
I tested Dia for a week and found myself browsing the web in new ways. In seconds, the browser provided a written recap of a 20-minute video without my watching its entirety. While scanning a breaking news article, the browser generated a list of other relevant articles for a deeper understanding. I even wrote to the browser’s built-in chatbot for help proofreading a paragraph of text.
Dia is on the cusp of an emerging era of A.I.-powered internet navigators that could persuade people to try something new. This week, Perplexity, a start-up that makes a search engine, announced an A.I. web browser called Comet, and some news outlets have reported that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, also plans to release a browser this year…
What does this all mean for the future of the web? Here’s what you need to know.
Like other web browsers, Dia is an app you open to load web pages. What’s unique is the way the browser seamlessly integrates an A.I. chatbot to help — without leaving the webpage.
Hitting a shortcut (command+E) in Dia opens a small window that runs parallel to the webpage. Here, you can type questions related to the content you are reading or the video you are watching, and a chatbot will respond…
In contrast, chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude require opening a separate tab or app and pasting in content for the chatbot to evaluate and answer questions, a process that has always busted my workflow. (Chen, 2025)
Generative Artificial Intelligence is changing the way people surf the web. The new app, Dia, shows just how generative A.I. is changing and evolving. When using A.I., users often need to switch tabs to talk to the chatbot, making it inefficient. Dia, however, allows people to use A.I. while staying on the same tab, improving efficiency. This kind of technology can be applied to banking apps as well as the travel experience to improve efficiency.
A.I. chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude generate responses using large language models, systems that use complex statistics to guess which words belong together. Each chatbot’s model has its strengths and weaknesses.
The Browser Company of New York said it had teamed up with multiple companies to use their A.I. models, including the ones behind Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude. When users type a question, the Dia browser analyzes it and pulls answers from whichever A.I. model is best suited for answering. (Chen, 2025)
This type of generative artificial intelligence also pulls from different A.I. models to get the best results. Different A.I. models have different strengths, so this method ensures the A.I. software is giving the most relevant results.
This technology could make budgeting easier for users, as it allows them to ask the chatbot questions without switching tabs. This means they can talk to the chatbot and reference their finances, all in one place. This can transform the process of budgeting to make it more accessible to everyone.
References.
Chen, B. (2025, July 11). Is A.I. the Future of Web Browsing? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/technology/personaltech/ai-internet-browser-dia.html
A.I. was not used for this article.
