OpenAI may unveil its Google Search competitor on this date

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

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

OpenAI declined to comment.

The announcement could be made a day before the start of Google’s annual I/O conference on Tuesday, where the tech giant is expected to unveil AI-related products.

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI’s search product is an extension of its flagship ChatGPT product, and enables ChatGPT to pull information directly from the web and include citations. ChatGPT is OpenAI’s chatbot product that uses the company’s cutting-edge AI models to generate human-like responses to text prompts.

Industry observers have long called ChatGPT an alternative for gathering information online, although it has struggled to provide accurate and real-time information from the Web. OpenAI previously gave it integration with Microsoft’s Bing for paid customers. Meanwhile, Google has announced generative AI features for its own eponymous engine.

Startup Perplexity, valued at $1 billion, was founded by a former OpenAI researcher, and has gained popularity by providing an AI-native search interface that shows citations in the results and images as well as text in its responses. According to the startup’s January blog post, it has 10 million monthly active users.

At the time, OpenAI’s ChatGPT product was said to be the fastest application to reach 100 million monthly active users after its launch in late 2022. However, worldwide traffic to ChatGPT’s website has been on a roller-coaster ride over the past year and is only now returning to its peak in May 2023, according to analytics firm SimilarWeb, and AI is relying on the company to expand its user base. There is pressure of.

An earlier effort to bring updates and real-world information to ChatGPT, called ChatGPT Plugins, was shut down in April, according to a Help Center posting on OpenAI’s website.

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