OpenAI could unveil its search competitor Google on Monday

OpenAI is reportedly preparing to announce an artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday that could threaten Google’s dominance. This target date, provided to Reuters per “two sources familiar with the matter,” the announcement is reportedly timed a day before Google kicks off its annual I/O conference, which is expected to focus on the search giant’s own AI model offerings, such as Gemini and Gemma.

This new rumor follows previous reports from both Bloomberg And Information it also suggests that OpenAI is developing an AI-based product capable of searching the Internet. According to BloombergOpenAI’s search function will be integrated into its ChatGPT chatbot and will include quotes, while Information reports that OpenAI’s search service could be “partly powered by Bing.”

OpenAI previously attempted to give ChatGPT access to live web data via ChatGPT plugins, which have since been removed in favor of GPT. People quickly adopted ChatGPT for information gathering tasks after its introduction in November 2022, but the chatbot – like all bots built on LLMs – has a poor reputation for providing accurate or up-to-date information.

Whether or not these new OpenAI rumors bear fruit next week, Google knows its reign over the search industry is under threat. “It’s not like life is going to be good forever. If there is a clear and current market reality, we need to react faster, like athletes, “warned Google search boss Prabhakar Raghavan in a meeting reported by CNBC last month.

“People come to us because we are trusted,” Raghavan said. “They may have a new gadget that people like to play with, but they still turn to Google to verify what they see there, because that’s the trusted source and it becomes more critical in the age of ‘Generative AI.’

OpenAI is apparently trying to build that trust, sources say The edge this week, the company is aggressively trying to poach Google employees to work on its own search offering. And OpenAI isn’t the only AI-focused threat facing Google: Perplexity, a billion-dollar startup founded by a former OpenAI researcher, said its own search product based on AI had attracted 10 million monthly active users as of January. .

Google faces these challenges while battling the DOJ’s ongoing antitrust lawsuit over its search dominance. If OpenAI East If you’re planning to get into the search game on the eve of Google’s I/O event, it’ll probably do so to send a message – one that Google would do well to take seriously, given that ChatGPT is one of (otherwise THE) the fastest growing services the world has ever seen.