During Google's antitrust trial in Washington on April 22, OpenAI's ChatGPT product manager Nick Turley said the company is interested in acquiring the Chrome browser if Google is forced to sell.
Mr. Turley made the statement while testifying at a trial where the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to require Google to take sweeping measures to restore competition in online search.
Last year, the judge presiding over the case found that Google had a monopoly in online search and related advertising. Google has no plans to sell Chrome and is expected to appeal the ruling on the monopoly allegations.
The trial has shed some light on the race for artificial intelligence (AI), where tech giants and startups are competing to develop applications and attract users.
In their opening statement on April 21, prosecutors expressed concern that Google's search monopoly could give the company an advantage in AI, and that Google's AI products are another way to drive users to its search engine.
According to an internal OpenAI document presented in court by Google’s attorney, Mr. Turley wrote last year that ChatGPT was leading the consumer chatbot market and did not consider Google its biggest competitor. In response, Mr. Turley said the document was intended to motivate OpenAI employees.
Appearing as a government witness, Mr. Turley also said that Google rejected OpenAI's offer to use Google search technology in ChatGPT.
OpenAI reached out to Google after experiencing problems with its own search provider, he said, without naming 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 API, will allow us to provide better products to our users.”
OpenAI first contacted Google in July 2024, and Google rejected the request in August 2024, saying the partnership would involve too many competitors. OpenAI currently has no partnership with Google, Turley confirmed.
The DOJ’s proposal to require Google to share search data with competitors would help accelerate efforts to improve ChatGPT, Turley said. Search is a critical part of ChatGPT, providing up-to-date and accurate answers to user queries.
ChatGPT is still years away from achieving its goal of using its own search technology to answer 80% of queries, he added./.
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