Apple is looking to add AI search engines to Safari

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Apple is looking to adhd AI hunt engines from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic to Safari, Bloomberg reported connected Wednesday.

Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, made the connection during his grounds successful the U.S. Justice Department’s suit against Alphabet. Cue’s disclosure was portion of his grounds regarding Apple and Google’s estimated $20 billion-a-year woody that makes Google the default search motor connected Safari.

He noted that searches connected Safari declined for the archetypal clip past month, a alteration that helium attributes to the accrued usage of AI.

Cue besides stated that helium believes AI hunt providers volition extremity up replacing accepted hunt engines similar Google, which is wherefore Apple is actively looking to adhd these services to its browser. However, Cue noted that these services astir apt won’t beryllium the default, arsenic helium believes they inactive request to improve.

Apple has already had immoderate discussions with Perplexity, Cue said.

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