Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, says the new features the AI company will introduce on Monday do not include a search engine. That plays down expectations that arose Thursday evening, including by sources contacted by Reuters, that a search engine to rival Google was about to be introduced.
OpenAI has been contacted on the social networkThe company announced today, Friday, that the company will broadcast a live event next Monday, May 13, “to showcase some updates to ChatGPT and GPT-4.”
CEO Posted by Sam Altman Later on the same platform: “It's not GPT-5, and it's not a search engine, but we're working hard on some new stuff that we think people will like! It sounds like magic to me.”
Shares of Alphabet, which owns Google, partially recovered from a stock market loss of more than 2% with Altman's latest statement, allaying fears of a competing product for the time being.
The OpenAI event scheduled for Monday will be held on the eve of the start of Google's annual conference, where the technology giant is expected to in turn unveil a series of artificial intelligence products.
Industry analysts have long pointed to ChatGPT as an alternative to information gathering Connected, although it is acknowledged that the product has difficulties in providing accurate information in real time. Meanwhile, in the opposite direction, Google announced generative AI features for its search engine.
Meanwhile, billion-dollar startup Perplexity was founded by a former OpenAI researcher and has gained traction by providing a native, AI-powered search interface that cites its sources in results and images, as well as text in its answers that resembles a search engine. It has 10 million monthly active users, according to a January post location From the company.
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