OpenAI has a livestreamed announcement deliberate for 10 a.m. PT on Monday β however itβs making an attempt to maintain expectations beneath management.
The corporate is describing the occasion as βan opportunity to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.β CEO Sam Altman, in the meantime, promoted the occasion with the message, βnot gpt-5, not a search engine, however weβve been exhausting at work on some new stuff we expect folks will love! looks like magic to me.β
Altmanβs 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 β stealing some thunder from the Google I/O developer convention, which begins Tuesday. The report additionally stated the announcement date βis topic to vary.β
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 β 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 Altmanβs insistence that itβs βnot a search engineβ might nonetheless be true. Weβll see.
The livestream begins at 10 a.m. PT on Monday. You may watch on the OpenAI web site.