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A startup called Deta built a browser with a chatbot that can help you browse, organize, and understand the entire internet. It’s very cool.

It grabbed the automatically generated transcript from the YouTube page and quickly used an AI model — a combination of OpenAI tech and Deta’s own — to run my question as a semantic search to see where the video answered it. You can use the chatbot to tweak webpages, too; Eusterbrock navigated to Hacker News, told the bot to hide everything other than “Show HN” posts, and it automatically did so. Deta has been working on future-of-computing stuff for a while, starting with a whole cloud-based operating system called Space that could run in a browser tab.

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