The Browser Company - the maker of the Arc and AI-centric Dia browsers - is set to have a new owner. Atlassian is buying it for around $610 million in an all-cash deal, which it expects to close in the second quarter of its fiscal year 2026 (i.e. by the end of the 2025 calendar year).According to The Browser Company, it will continue to operate independently as it builds Dia. A private beta for the browser started in June. Arc (a well-regarded browser on which the company has ended active development) and Arc Search will stick around, and a long-term plan for those will be revealed in the near future.Co-founders Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal are staying on as CEO and CTO, respectively. Miller wrote in a blog post that they are looking to accelerate their ambitions by teaming up with Atlassian. "We chose Atlassian because their strengths complement our gaps," Miller wrote. "And most importantly, like us, they believe the browser is becoming the new operating system." The Browser Company plans to bring Dia to "to every platform faster than we could have previously imagined" in the coming months.Miller said the company had three conditions for any acquisition: to ensure it remained independent, that all of its team members still had a job and that its "vision for Dia remains at the center." He added that "a large part of why we chose Atlassian is values. Now more than ever. Not the kind you hang on a wall, but the ones you see in the work itself."Atlassian is the owner of productivity and enterprise services such as project management apps Jira and Trello (which has been buggy for me for over a year, for what it's worth). Last month, it reportedly laid off around 150 workers, many of whom were said to be in the customer service department, and was said to be planning to use AI to take over some of those former employees' tasks."Our vision is to make Dia the AI browser for work," Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said in a video announcing the acquisition. The team is designing Dia so it's "optimized for the SaaS [software as a service] apps where you spend your day; packed with AI skills and your personal work memory to unleash your potential; and built with trust and security in mind, so you can bring it to the office. An AI browser for your system of work."This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/atlassian-is-buying-arc-maker-the-browser-company-for-610-million-145236236.html?src=rss

The Browser Company's AI-powered browser is now available to download for all macOS users. Dia started rolling out to private beta testers in June, following its initial reveal at the end of last year, but if you're a Mac user you can download it here if you want to try it. Note that you need a Mac with an M1 chip or later running macOS 14 or later.AI is being baked into a lot of web browsers right now, but with Dia it's at the heart of everything you do. It allows you to interact with The Browser Company's chatbot within every tab you have open, where it's able to search the web, compare websites and answer questions about the content displayed on the page you have open. It features an in-line copy editor too, and can summarise text without requiring you to copy-paste it into a separate field. It'll also happily talk you out of an expensive purchase, if prompted.The Browser Company previously worked on the popular Arc browser, but shifted its focus entirely to Dia back in May, after CEO Josh Miller said the former "lacked cohesion, in both its core features and value." Miller said Arc was "too different" for widespread adoption, but committed to providing future security updates for the people who were on board (many of whom were effusive in their praise).The Browser Company was recently acquired by Atlassian in a deal worth around $610 million, which should be finalized by the end of 2025. As part of the agreement, the former was allowed to continue operating independently while it worked on Dia, and wrote in a blog post published at the time that the acquisition would help it roll out its new AI browser more aggressively. At the time of writing, there's no word on plans for a Windows launch. But given Arc eventually made its way to Windows, chances are it'll happen sooner or later.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-browser-companys-dia-is-now-available-on-mac-no-invite-needed-150240626.html?src=rss