OpenAI’s Google Killer? ChatGPT Search could launch as early as Monday

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OpenAI is coming for the most popular website on the Internet: Google Search. Reuters reports the company behind ChatGPT is planning to launch a search engine as early as this Monday.

OpenAI has been inching toward a search engine for a while now. It has been working with Microsoft with a “Bing Chat” generative-AI search engine in Microsoft’s search engine. Earlier this week, The Verge reported that “OpenAI has been aggressively trying to poach Google employees” for an upstart search team. “Search.chatgpt.com” is already being set up on OpenAI’s server, so it’s all falling into place.

The report cautions that the date is subject to change, but a Monday announcement would be the most dramatic timing possible. That’s the day before Google’s biggest show of the year, Google I/O, where Google will primarily want to show off its AI prowess and convince people that it is not being left in the dust by OpenAI. Google seeing its biggest search competition in years and suddenly having to face down “OpenAI’s Google Killer” would definitely cast a shadow over the show.