Traditional tissue tools face an existential crisis, as AI products and tools are increasingly eating attention – and therefore market share and money – from a widespread product care that people have used for years to interact with the internet. At least, this seems to be the browser company.
Last year the company decided to stop developing the popular arc of the tissue browser, recognizing that while the ARC was popular among the enthusiastic, it never hit the scale, as it presented a very sharp learning curve to reach mass adoption. The start has since surpassed the development of a browser that bakes at AI at the heart of the browser. This browser, called DiamondIt is now available for use in Beta, though you will need an invitation to try it.
The CEO of the browser, Josh Miller, slowly recognized how people use AI tools for all kinds of duties and DIA is a reflection of it. Giving users an AI interface in the browser itself, where the majority of work is being done these days, the company hopes to slip into the user’s flow and give people an easy way to use AI, cutting the need to visit the websites for tools such as Chatgpt, Purplexity and Claude.
In front, Dia presents a simple interface. The browser is based on Chromium, the Google Open Conder Browser, so it has a familiar look and feel.
The marquee feature here is AI Smarts, of course. In addition to allowing you to type website names and search terms, DIA’s URL works as a interface for its built -in AI Chatbot. The bot can search the web for you, summarize the files you upload and automatically change between chat and search functions. Users can also ask questions about all the tabs that have been opened and the bot can even write a design based on the content of these tabs.
To set your preferences, all you have to do is talk with Chatbot to customize the tone of voice, style of writing and coding settings. Through an opt-in feature called History, you can allow the browser to use seven days from your browser as a frame to answer questions.
Another feature called skills allows you to create small code excerpts that act as shortcuts in various settings. For example, you can ask the browser to create a reading layout and will codify something for you – you think Siri shortcuts, but for your browser.
Now, it should be noted that chatbots in browser are not at all a new feature. Many browser companies have incorporated AI tools into their interfaces-for example, Neon Opera allows users to use an AI agent to create mini-apps or complete the work on their behalf, and Google also adds features fueled by AI to Chrome.
The browser company states that all existing ARC members will have direct access to DIA and existing DIA users will be able to send invitations to other users.
