Meituan’s GN06 Launches Public Beta of AI-Native Browser Tabbit

China's Meituan has unveiled Tabbit, an artificial intelligence-native browser that treats the web not as a collection of separate pages but as a unified data layer that AI can understand and act upon—a fundamental reimagining of how users interact with the internet that could reshape the competitive landscape dominated by Chrome and Safari. The move signals that Chinese tech giants are no longer content to build AI assistants atop existing browsers, instead betting that the browser itself must become an intelligent intermediary between users and the web. If Tabbit gains traction, it could force Microsoft, Google and Apple to accelerate their own AI browser initiatives or risk ceding a critical touchpoint to competitors with fresher architectural thinking.

Pandaily·Mar 2