OpenAI plans to announce Google’s rival search on Monday, sources say

OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on Monday, two sources familiar with the matter said, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.

Although subject to change, the announcement date had not yet been announced. Bloomberg and The Information reported that Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a search product to potentially compete with Alphabet’s Google and well-funded AI search startup Perplexity.

OpenAI declined to comment.

The announcement may have been scheduled for the day before the start of Google’s annual I/O conference, where the tech giant is expected to unveil a series of AI-related products.

OpenAI’s search product is an extension of its flagship ChatGPT and allows ChatGPT to pull information directly from the internet and include citations, according to Bloomberg. ChatGPT is OpenAI’s chatbot product that uses the company’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence models to generate human-like responses to text commands.

Industry observers have long said that ChatGPT is an alternative for gathering information online, although it has difficulty providing accurate, real-time information from the Internet. OpenAI had offered an integration with Microsoft’s Bing for paid subscribers. Meanwhile, Google announced generative AI capabilities for its namesake search engine.

The $1 billion startup Perplexity was founded by a former OpenAI researcher and has gained traction by providing a native AI search interface that displays citations and images in results, as well as text in responses. It has 10 million active users, according to the startup’s blog post from January.

Source: Terra

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