Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company, is almost nothing like the company’s last product. That app, Arc, was a total rethink of how browsers work: it moved tabs to the side and combined them with bookmarks, it offered endless ways to organize all your stuff, and it had lots of ideas about how to make your web surfing a little more delightful.

Dia will get some of that stuff in time, The Browser Company’s CEO Josh Miller tells me. The app that’s launching today for existing Arc users is very much still a beta (and only available on Mac). But none of that stuff is the point of Dia anyway. The point of Dia, he says, is to bring artificial intelligence to the very center of practically everything you do online. The app’s central feature is a chat tool that is able to look at every website you visit, access every site you’re logged into, and help you find information, get stuff done, and navigate the web a little more easily.

The app itself, which I’ve been testing for a while, is incredibly simple to understand. Imagine Chrome, only with far more design polish and more playful animations. Now imagine a sidebar on the right side that contains a ChatGPT-like chatbot, which yo …

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