OpenAI plans to announce an AI-powered search product on Monday – sources

OpenAI plans to announce an artificial intelligence-based search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would raise the stakes in its competition with search services leader Google, Reuters reports.

The announcement date, although subject to change, has not been previously published.

Bloomberg and The Information reported that OpenAI, a company backed by Microsoft, is working on a search product to compete with Google, part of the Alphabet group, and Perplexity, a well-funded AI search startup.

OpenAI declined to comment.

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

OpenAI’s search product is an extension of its flagship ChatGPT product and allows ChatGPT to extract information directly from the Web and include citations, according to Bloomberg.

ChatGPT is OpenAI’s chatbot product that uses the company’s cutting-edge AI models to generate human-like responses to text prompts.

Industry watchers have long called ChatGPT an alternative for online information gathering, although it has struggled with providing accurate and real-time information from the web.

OpenAI previously offered an integration with Microsoft’s Bing for paid subscribers.

Meanwhile, Google has announced generative AI features for its own eponymous engine.

Startup Perplexity, which has a $1 billion valuation, was founded by a former OpenAI researcher and gained traction by providing an AI-native search interface that shows citations in results and images, as well as text in its answers. It has 10 million monthly active users, according to a January blog post by the startup.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT product was named the fastest app ever to reach 100 million monthly active users after it launched in late 2022. However, worldwide traffic to the ChatGPT website has fluctuated much in the past year and is only now returning to its May 2023 peak, according to analytics firm Similarweb, and the AI ​​company is under pressure to expand its user base.

An earlier attempt to bring updated and real information to ChatGPT, called ChatGPT plugins, was pulled in April, according to a help center post on the OpenAI website.

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