Google, the tech giant, risks losing its Chrome browser to OpenAI.

Nick Turley, product manager for ChatGPT at OpenAI, said the company is interested in acquiring the Chrome browser if Google is forced to sell it.

During the antitrust trial against Google in Washington on April 22, OpenAI's ChatGPT product director, Nick Turley, stated that the company was interested in acquiring the Chrome browser if Google were forced to sell it.

Mr. Turley made this statement while testifying in court, where the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to require Google to take sweeping measures to restore competition in the online search industry.

Last year, the judge presiding over this trial concluded that Google held a monopoly in the online search and related advertising sectors. Google has no intention of selling Chrome and is expected to appeal the ruling on the monopoly claim.

The trial has revealed aspects of the artificial intelligence (AI) development race, where tech giants and startups are competing to develop applications and attract users.

In their opening statement at the trial on April 21, prosecutors expressed concerns that Google's search monopoly could give the company an advantage in the field of AI, and that Google's AI products were another way to drive users to its search engine.

According to an internal OpenAI document presented in court by Google's lawyers, Turley wrote last year that ChatGPT was leading the consumer chatbot market and did not consider Google his biggest competitor. In response, Turley stated that the document was intended to encourage OpenAI employees.

Appearing in court as a government witness, Turley also stated that Google had rejected OpenAI's request to use Google's search technology in ChatGPT.

He said OpenAI contacted Google after experiencing issues with its own search provider, but did not name the provider. ChatGPT currently uses technology from Microsoft's Bing search engine.

According to an email released in court, OpenAI told Google: "We believe that having more partners, especially Google's APIs, will allow us to deliver a better product to users."

OpenAI first contacted Google in July 2024, and Google rejected the request in August 2024, citing that the collaboration would involve too many competitors. Mr. Turley confirmed that OpenAI currently has no partnership with Google.

Mr. Turley argued that the DOJ's proposal requiring Google to share search data with competitors would help accelerate efforts to improve ChatGPT. Search is a crucial part of ChatGPT for providing up-to-date and accurate answers to user queries.

He added that ChatGPT is still many years away from achieving its goal of using its own search technology to answer 80% of queries.

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