Get ready for a showdown in search! OpenAI, known for its popular conversational AI ChatGPT, is set to unveil a new product on Monday. While details are scarce, CEO Sam Altman hints it's not a full-fledged search engine but something related to ChatGPT with exciting capabilities. This announcement throws a spotlight on the burgeoning AI search market, where Google's dominance is about to face a fresh challenge.
Open AI's SearchGPT is Challenging Far More Openly
OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product, AI-powered search engine SearchGPT on Monday 13th May 2024, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google. OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, is reportedly developing a search product that could rival Google and the well-funded AI search startup Perplexity. The announcement date is yet to be confirmed, but it's expected to happen soon. This AI search Startup can reshape the way people are using the search engines.
If I ask you about the population of California, what is the first thing you are more likely to do? A Search. A Google search. This is how Google has shaped the user's intentions. Achieved incredible amounts of trust and made the internet dependent on them like never before. It's been more than two consecutive decades since September 4, 1998, Google has dominated the position as the most powerful search engine. But history repeats itself.
With the rise of a startup by two American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. All other search engines became obsolete within the next few years following the launch of Google Search Engine. No AI, no artificial help, simply handwritten codes that were capable of crawling the entire internet and producing results within a glance of eyes. This is the glorious past days of Google Search Engine.
Google VS AI-Powered Search Engine SearchGPT
After 24 years, the world has seen another legendary product. That is ChatGPT by a AI startup, OpenAI. ChatGPT is an artificially intelligent AI-powered chatbot that can produce human-like replies depending on a text deployed by a human user. This model can interpret, understand, and reply in more than 80 languages.
Since the start users have used ChatGPT with different user intents. For writing, compiling, and analyzing text. Ranging from complex codes to pure literature. Another significant use is data collection. It can provide data about any possible thing as far as it has been taught. But What about the events happening after the creation of ChatGPT, this language model simply has no access to these events or any kind of Data after November 30, 2022.
While in response to OpenAI's ChatGPT google brought the AI-powered chatbot Gemini. Gemini has complete access to the internet and can provide real-time data to its users. If observed carefully this feature made Google's product many times more user friendly that ChatGPT.
On May 9th, 2024 Sam Altman announced through the social media platform "X '' that they are going to launch an AI-powered Search Engine, that can extract data directly from the internet and present it to its users in reply to its user's query.
This announcement heats up the competition in AI search. Google, the current search leader, is also expected to showcase AI advancements at its I/O conference this week. Perplexity, another AI search startup with a focus on citations and visuals, is also a player in this space.
Final Thoughts
With these developments, the search landscape is undergoing a significant shift. AI is poised to become a defining feature, offering users more nuanced and informative search experiences. The upcoming announcements from OpenAI and Google will be closely watched as they shape the future of how we navigate the vast ocean of information online.
