Is Google playing catchup on search with OpenAI?

Is Google playing catchup on search with OpenAI?

This story originally appeared in The Debrief with Mat Honan, a weekly newsletter about the biggest stories in tech from our editor in chief. Sign up here to get the next one in your inbox. I’ve been mulling over something that Will Heaven, our senior editor for AI, pointed out not too long ago: that all the big players in AI seem to be moving in the same directions and converging on the same things. Agents. Deep research. Lightweight versions o…

Google entered late and badly into the race for AI forced by OpenAI and its launch of ChatGPT in 2022. ChatGPT is the fastest adoption platform in history: a million users in five days. Google, however, has two advantages over OpenAI: it has all our data, especially if we use GMail and Google Docs, and we look for an average of 4.2 times a day. Its quota is 90.15% of searches.Keep reading...