OpenAI has a livestreamed announcement deliberate for 10 a.m. PT on Monday — nevertheless it’s attempting 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 arduous at work on some new stuff we predict individuals will love! seems 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 accordance with The Info, the product shall be partly powered by Bing (Microsoft is a serious OpenAI investor and accomplice); Bloomberg stated it’ll work as a function inside ChatGPT, permitting the chatbot to look the online and cite sources — making it much less of a black field that returns solutions of unknown origin.
So in concept, a minimum of, OpenAI may announce a search function Monday and Altman’s insistence that it’s “not a search engine” may nonetheless be true. We’ll see. (The Info has additionally reported that OpenAI has an AI voice assistant in growth.)
The livestream begins at 10 a.m. PT on Monday. You possibly can watch on the OpenAI web site.
