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They are targeting both. The OpenAI's browser is built on Google's open source browser software Chromium, but it isn't Chrome. Chrome has some special features, like sending user data back to Google to help improve search results and ad placement, optimize web page loading, as well as keeping the user in the Google ecosystem. And since most people use Chrome, most sites are optimized to work best with Chrome, and Google can drive web standards. Obviously, Google would prefer for OpenAI not to do an end-around.
Astonishingly, Microsoft Edge is also based on Chromium. I would think that a software company would create their own browser from scratch over using a competitor's product, especially after Google drowned Internet Explorer in the bathtub. It seems a little comeuppance would be in order. But apparently because everyone was optimizing for Chrome, Microsoft decided that if they couldn't beat 'em, join 'em.
