Google revealed plans on Monday to launch a chatbot to rival OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT, as it seeks to make up lost ground in the race to bring powerful new language artificial intelligence to the internet search business.
The announcement comes more than two months after OpenAI drew worldwide attention with the public release of its chatbot, which highlighted an easier way to find answers to queries than using a traditional search engine such as Google.
Microsoft, which recently announced a “multibillion dollar” investment in OpenAI, has been gearing up to use its AI in its Bing search engine, potentially beating Google to the punch in the most important new technology to hit the search market in years.