Most AI product news still sounds like "who has the smarter chatbot." The more useful frame is uglier and more commercial:
Who gets to sit on top of your open tabs, sessions, and next click.
That is the real fight in browser agents - ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity-style vertical browsers, extensions, desktop apps. Not "own a browser brand" as a lifestyle product. Own intent, context, and the right to act.
I watched a clean mechanism breakdown of this from JKBuild (not my channel - a friend's deep dive I keep pointing people at):
If you only want the video, stop there. If you want the map I use when reading these announcements, keep going.
