OpenAI’s ChatGPT announcement: What we know so far

OpenAI has a livestreamed announcement deliberate for 10 a.m. PT on Monday — however it’s making an attempt to maintain expectations beneath management.

The corporate is describing the occasion as “an opportunity to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.” CEO Sam Altman, in the meantime, promoted the occasion with the message, “not gpt-5, not a search engine, however we’ve been exhausting at work on some new stuff we expect folks will love! looks like magic to me.”

Altman’s wording was presumably alluding to a Reuters report printed earlier this week, suggesting that OpenAI plans to announce an AI-powered search product on Monday — stealing some thunder from the Google I/O developer convention, which begins Tuesday. The report additionally stated the announcement date “is topic to vary.”

The Info and Bloomberg had beforehand reported that OpenAI has a search product in growth. In line with The Info, the product might be partly powered by Bing (Microsoft is a significant OpenAI investor and companion); Bloomberg stated it can work as a characteristic inside ChatGPT, permitting the chatbot to go looking the online and cite sources — making it much less of a black field that returns solutions of unknown origin.

So in principle, a minimum of, OpenAI might announce a search characteristic Monday and Altman’s insistence that it’s “not a search engine” might nonetheless be true. We’ll see.

The livestream begins at 10 a.m. PT on Monday. You may watch on the OpenAI web site.