OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search product on Monday, two sources familiar with the matter said, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.
The announcement date, though subject to change, has not been previously reported.
Microsoft Corp’s OpenAI is working on a search product to potentially compete with Alphabet Inc’s Google and a well-funded AI search start-up’s Perplexity, Bloomberg and The Information said.
Photo: AFP
OpenAI declined to comment.
The announcement could be timed a day before Google I/O 2024, which starts on Tuesday next week, 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 enables ChatGPT to pull information directly from the Web and include citations, Bloomberg said. ChatGPT is a chatbot which 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 online information, though it has struggled with providing accurate and real-time information from the Web. OpenAI earlier integrated with Microsoft’s Bing for paid subscribers.
Google has also announced generative AI features for its own namesake engine.
Meanwhile, Perplexity has gained traction as an AI-native search interface that shows citations in results and images, as well as text in its responses. It was founded by a former OpenAI researcher and currently has a valuation of US$1 billion.
Perplexity has 10 million monthly active users, the start-up wrote in a blog post in January.
At the time, ChatGPT was called the fastest application to ever reach 100 million monthly active users after it launched in late 2022.
However, worldwide traffic to ChatGPT’s Web site has been on a roller-coaster ride in the past year and is only now returning to its peak in May last year, analytics firm Similarweb said, adding that the AI company is under pressure to expand its user base.
An earlier attempt to bring updated and real-world information to ChatGPT, called ChatGPT plugins, was retired last month, OpenAI said in a help center posting on its Web site.
PROTECTION: The investigation, which takes aim at exporters such as Canada, Germany and Brazil, came days after Trump unveiled tariff hikes on steel and aluminum products US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered a probe into potential tariffs on lumber imports — a move threatening to stoke trade tensions — while also pushing for a domestic supply boost. Trump signed an executive order instructing US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to begin an investigation “to determine the effects on the national security of imports of timber, lumber and their derivative products.” The study might result in new tariffs being imposed, which would pile on top of existing levies. The investigation takes aim at exporters like Canada, Germany and Brazil, with White House officials earlier accusing these economies of
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) would not produce its most advanced technologies in the US next year, Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo (郭智輝) said yesterday. Kuo made the comment during an appearance at the legislature, hours after the chipmaker announced that it would invest an additional US$100 billion to expand its manufacturing operations in the US. Asked by Taiwan People’s Party Legislator-at-large Chang Chi-kai (張啟楷) if TSMC would allow its most advanced technologies, the yet-to-be-released 2-nanometer and 1.6-nanometer processes, to go to the US in the near term, Kuo denied it. TSMC recently opened its first US factory, which produces 4-nanometer
Teleperformance SE, the largest call-center operator in the world, is rolling out an artificial intelligence (AI) system that softens English-speaking Indian workers’ accents in real time in a move the company claims would make them more understandable. The technology, called accent translation, coupled with background noise cancelation, is being deployed in call centers in India, where workers provide customer support to some of Teleperformance’s international clients. The company provides outsourced customer support and content moderation to global companies including Apple Inc, ByteDance Ltd’s (字節跳動) TikTok and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. “When you have an Indian agent on the line, sometimes it’s hard
‘SACRED MOUNTAIN’: The chipmaker can form joint ventures abroad, except in China, but like other firms, it needs government approval for large investments Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) needs government permission for any overseas joint ventures (JVs), but there are no restrictions on making the most advanced chips overseas other than for China, Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo (郭智輝) said yesterday. US media have said that TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker and a major supplier to companies such as Apple Inc and Nvidia Corp, has been in talks for a stake in Intel Corp. Neither company has confirmed the talks, but US President Donald Trump has accused Taiwan of taking away the US’ semiconductor business and said he wants the industry back
RSS