OpenAI on Thursday announced its own search engine prototype, called Search GPT, which aims to provide users with “quick, timely answers with clear and relevant sources.” The company said it eventually plans to integrate the tool into its viral chatbot ChatGPT, which it is currently testing with a small group of users.
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, Alphabet investors have been worried that OpenAI may take search market share from Google by providing new ways for consumers to search for information online. OpenAI is testing this with this prototype.
letter Shares were down about 2.5% on Thursday, while the Nasdaq was slightly higher.
In May, Google rolled out AI Overview to a limited audience, which CEO Sundar Pichai called the biggest change in search in 25 years, allowing users to see queries at the top of Google searches Summary of answer.
Although Google’s work on the AI overview is more than a year old, public criticism has grown after users quickly noticed that queries within the AI feature were returning meaningless or inaccurate results (without any way to opt out). Come more and more.
After OpenAI released a new artificial intelligence model “GPT-4o mini” last Thursday, SearchGPT was also released. The new model is a fork of GPT-4o, the startup’s fastest and most powerful model yet, which it launched in May during a live event with senior executives.
OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, has been valued by investors at more than $80 billion. The company, founded in 2015, is under pressure to stay at the top of the generative AI market while looking for ways to make money after spending heavily on processors and infrastructure to build and train models.
Last month, OpenAI announced the hiring of two senior executives and a partnership with Apple that includes ChatGPT-Siri integration. Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor and CFO of Square, has joined as chief financial officer, and Kevin Weil, former president of Planet Labs, former senior vice president of Twitter, and vice president of Facebook and Instagram, has joined as chief product officer.
OpenAI is beefing up its team of senior executives as its large-scale language models become increasingly important in the tech world and competition in the emerging generative artificial intelligence market rapidly intensifies.
OpenAI’s new mini AI model and SearchGPT prototype are also part of the company’s efforts to be at the forefront of “multimodality” – the ability to provide multiple types of AI-generated media (such as text, images, audio, video and search) in one Within the tool: ChatGPT.
Last year, OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap told CNBC: “The world is multimodal. If you think about the way we as humans process and interact with the world, we see things, Hearing things, saying things – the world So text and code always feel incomplete to us as a single model, a single interface, because we can have the power and functionality of these models.
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