Everyone is speculating about today’s OpenAI event. Many assumed that the company would announce a ChatGPT-powered search engine. Others thought the company might announce a new open source language model for the popular ChatGPT service. OpenAI’s Sam Altman put these rumors to rest with a post on X.
Altman posted on Xsaying the focus of the event is “not gpt-5, not a search engine, but we’ve been working hard on some new stuff that we think people will like!”
“Sounds like magic to me. Monday at 10 a.m. PT,” he said to end the post.
Of course, this just means that OpenAI won’t be launching an AI-based search engine today. There’s still a good chance the company will roll out a search tool at some point. Companies like Perplexity are aggressively pushing AI research. Google, the search leader, is experimenting with AI results in the main search feed through the Generative Search Experience (SGE).
If OpenAI rolls out a search engine at some point, there could be some substantial benefits. “The big benefit of pairing a platform like ChatGPT with web crawler-based search is that it allows the language model to act like your own personal search tutor — not just finding information but presenting it in a way that is easy to understand and use,” our AI expert Ryan Morrison wrote in Preview of its OpenAI research.
Morrison also noted that OpenAI faces an uphill battle to beat Google in search. “To beat Google at its own game, OpenAI faces some tough odds as Google itself works to integrate LLM-powered analysis into its search results,” he wrote.
What else could OpenAI do if it wasn’t a search ad? Morrison posted some Speculation on X. “Potential open source small language model, GPT-4 coming to free ChatGPT, updated data cut in ChatGPT, and we could still see improvement in web search in ChatGPT.” If any of this information is accurate, this could still be a very exciting event for OpenAI and its fans.
Fortunately, we’ll just have to wait a little longer, as we can catch the event on Monday, May 13, 2024, at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET). As is the OpenAI tradition, this will happen before the start of Google I/O on May 14.
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