Dia’s AI browser starts adding Arc’s ‘greatest hits’ to its feature set

The AI web browser Dia is drafting inspiration from its predecessor, Arc, an earlier experimentation successful modernizing the web browsing acquisition that hailed from the startup known arsenic The Browser Company. On Sunday, The Browser Company laminitis Josh Miller confirmed that the caller AI browser volition bring “Arc’s top hits” to Dia, including things similar the sidebar mode, and harvester that with AI-native features similar representation and agents.

This mentation suggests that Dia, which has since been acquired by Atlassian for $610 million, could person an vantage successful the AI browser race, arsenic it builds connected the company’s earlier learnings from processing Arc.

The second was initially released successful mid-2023 arsenic a reinvention of the browser designed astir the mode radical usage the net today. That included offering abstracted workspaces for enactment and idiosyncratic browsing, enactment for pinned tabs, a Command Bar that worked similar Apple’s Spotlight search, and a sidebar that included the hunt bar, tab list, idiosyncratic bookmarks, audio controls, and more.

However, Arc whitethorn person tried to propulsion the envelope a spot excessively far: Miller aboriginal admitted that Arc was yet excessively analyzable for astir radical to adopt.

“Arc was simply excessively different, with excessively galore caller things to learn, for excessively small reward… On apical of that, Arc lacked cohesion successful some its halfway features and halfway values. It was experimental, that was portion of its charm, but besides its complexity,” Miller wrote successful a blog post earlier this year, detailing the company’s decision to upwind down Arc and unfastened root it, and refocusing the company’s efforts connected gathering Dia.

But Arc whitethorn not needfully beryllium a failure, adjacent if it didn’t go a wide adopted user product. Instead, the browser gave the institution a year-plus’ worthy of insights into what benignant of modern browser features resonate with users and which ones bash not.

That could assistance the institution get up erstwhile gathering retired the diagnostic acceptable for Dia.

As Miller says successful a station connected X, “Dia’s architecture is overmuch amended for AI, speed, and security,” but it volition present features that Arc fans loved, similar the sidebar mode — which was conscionable spotted successful the company’s latest “early birds” merchandise of Dia’s AI browser.

Already, Dia has added different features from Arc’s “greatest hits,” similar turning Google Meet into a picture-in-picture subordinate automatically erstwhile you power tabs and customized keyboard shortcuts. Miller hinted that the institution is exploring however to modulation Arc’s Spaces — the chiseled browsing areas with their ain acceptable of pinned tabs, favorites, themes, history, and cookies — to Dia. And helium said Dia’s squad is currently testing pinned tabs internally.

Miller additionally solicited feedback astir different features to add, similar swipeable profiles, and Arc Search-inspired updates for the Dia mobile app coming successful 2026.

Plus, Miller notes, Dia volition person little bloat and volition beryllium AI-native for things similar representation and agents.

Following the acquisition by Atlassian, The Browser Company continues to run independently. As a result, Miller said the institution volition beryllium capable to adhd much “browser basics,” referring to favourite Arc features, to the Dia browser. He besides shared that Dia is processing deeper integrations with Atlassian’s Jira and different apps, similar Linear, nether its caller owner.