OpenAI may reveal its Google search competitor on Monday

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

This new rumor follows up on previous reports from both Bloomberg It is The information This also suggests that OpenAI is developing an AI-based product capable of searching the Internet. According to BloombergOpenAI’s search feature will be integrated into the ChatGPT chatbot and will include citations, while The information reports that OpenAI’s search service may be “partially powered by Bing.”

OpenAI previously attempted to provide ChatGPT with access to live web data through ChatGPT plugins, which have since been retired in favor of GPTs. People quickly adopted ChatGPT for information gathering tasks after it was introduced in November 2021, but the chatbot – like all bots built on top of LLMs – has a bad reputation for providing accurate or up-to-date information.

Whether or not these new OpenAI rumors come to fruition next week, Google knows its reign over the search industry is under threat. “It’s not like life is going to be great forever. If there is a clear and present market reality, we need to contract faster, like athletes contract faster,” Google head of research Prabhakar Raghavan warned employees in a meeting. Reported by CNBC last month.

“People come to us because we are trustworthy,” Raghavan said. “They may have a new device that people like to play with, but they still turn to Google to verify what they see there because it is the trusted source and becomes more critical in this era of generative AI.”

OpenAI is apparently trying to build that trust, with sources telling On the edge this week that the company is aggressively trying to hire Google employees to work on its own search offering. And OpenAI isn’t the only AI-focused threat targeting Google — Perplexity, a $1 billion start-up founded by a former OpenAI researcher, said its own AI-based search product has attracted 10 million monthly active users in January.

Google is facing these challenges at the same time as it fights the DOJ’s ongoing antitrust lawsuit over its dominance in search. If OpenAI It is planning to enter the search game on the eve of Google’s I/O event, then it will probably do so to send a message – one that Google would do well to take seriously, as ChatGPT is one of the (if not O) fastest growing services the world has ever seen.