Ray Deck introduces Dia, The Browser Company's new AI-driven browser replacing Arc. It combines chat with browsing: a new-tab prompt lets you choose between Google search or start a conversational research session that opens tabs and pulls information across them. Dia is currently macOS-only and positioned as an AI-enhanced interface for research and design workflows.
Have you, have you all tried using Dia yet? No. Tell me more. Have you heard of it?
I, I haven't, no.
Dia is a browser, um, so there's a company called The Browser Company that made a browser called Arc Browser that was relatively popular, like, you know, '23-'24, and then they put down Arc Browser. They kind of deprecated it. This was, uh, the Arc browser was popular particularly among designer types and actually a lot of no-code types, uh, because it looked nice, uh, and it was sort of, you know, easy to, uh, to control and had a signature sidebar, uh, for keeping track of tabs. The, um, but then they said, look, we're not making any money on this, we need to put it down. So they can make something new called the Dia browser, and the Dia browser is integrated chat plus browser experience, which produces some really remarkable results. When I do a new tab, I'm getting a prompt that looks like just where Core was. Instead of the usual, you do a new tab and you type in, you get Google search. Now it'll give me my choice of Google search or just start a conversation about this and it will do research. It can open something up in another tab. And it can use the information from that open tab to feed back into what you know, what you're doing, etc. You can be going to the other tab, you can be asking it information that relates to 3 other tabs that you might have open, and more replicating the way that we actually work with things in a browser experience. I was thinking about that core relative to what you were just doing, like research. I'm finding that this mix of the browser which is where I would go to go find things, and being able to either ask a question or, and like, you know, figure out, okay, does search or conversation get me there? And then lightning fast go to where does I need to go? Or discover. I discover. Yeah.
Looking at my website, is it open source though?
The Dia browser?
Yeah. Download. Yeah, I'm just checking out.
I don't know about being open source.
No, it's only available for macOS. So I have— everything's Linux.
Well, that's the way that goes. There's also Perplexity is making a browser as well. And I think Perplexity is a really interesting company in this space because they are at that intersect of both search and chat. Now they're trying to bring it to actually having their own first-party browser. They're all just Chromium browsers. The Redmond— [Speaker] Yeah, they all have the Chromium engine. [Speaker] But that's just for the browser part and then they wrap other things around it. The analogy I use is that DIA, and I haven't used Comet yet, but this category of stuff is to Cursor as Chrome is to Visual Studio. Or Visual Studio Code, or particular—
oh yeah.
