Sam Altman: I can't remember the last time I used Google.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took a jab at Google, shortly after the company announced it would use its rival's cloud computing infrastructure for ChatGPT.

Sam Altman (left) and Mr. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google (right). Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg .

During a recent dinner with reporters, Sam Altman shared that he has long stopped using Google's search engine, one of his company's biggest competitors in the race to develop AI.

“I don’t use Google anymore. Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I did a Google search,” the CEO shared in The Verge ’s Command Line newsletter.

It's not hard to see that Mr. Altman could be using his own company's product, ChatGPT, as a replacement for Google.

Despite being rivals on the AI front, OpenAI recently partnered with Google Cloud, along with other providers like Microsoft and Oracle, to meet ChatGPT's data processing needs.

The OpenAI CEO's controversial comments come shortly after the company announced it would use Google's cloud computing infrastructure for ChatGPT. Photo: Analytics Indiamag.

At the second-quarter earnings call in June, Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed “excitement” about the partnership.

“Google Cloud is an open platform, and we have a long history of supporting large enterprises, startups, and AI labs.

We are excited about this partnership in cloud computing and look forward to investing further to grow this relationship," said the Google CEO.

OpenAI recently released GPT-5, the latest iteration of ChatGPT. Altman said the model will be available to everyone for free, and users won’t need to switch between different versions of the model for each task.

He also called GPT-5 “a major upgrade” and “a major step forward on the path to AGI (artificial general intelligence).” The CEO even said that going back to GPT-4 after experiencing GPT-5 would be “horrible.”

However, immediately after its launch, GPT-5 faced a wave of fierce opposition from users. Many people thought that this model did not have many outstanding improvements. Some users even commented that GPT-5 felt soulless, lacking the naturalness and emotion of previous versions.

This negative reaction forced OpenAI to make an unexpected move: re-offering GPT-4o. Having to revert to the old model shows how heavily users rely on GPT-4o, and it also poses a major challenge for OpenAI to convince users of the true value of GPT-5.

OpenAI and Google have not yet commented on the interview requests.

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