ChatGPT-maker wants to buy Google Chrome

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI would beryllium funny successful buying Chrome, the world's astir fashionable browser, if Google was forced to merchantability it.

Nick Turley, an enforcement astatine the artificial quality (AI) company, was testifying connected behalf of the US authorities successful an ongoing monopoly proceedings against Google.

The US wants the tech elephantine to beryllium breached up, arguing it has excessively overmuch dominance successful the online hunt market.

But Google says Chrome is not for merchantability and has called for the antitrust suit to beryllium thrown out.

It is estimated that astir 64% of radical online usage Chrome, according to analytics institution Similarweb.

The adjacent astir fashionable browser, Apple's Safari, is utilized by 21% of people.

Mr Turley was testifying astatine the proceedings successful Washington DC, the latest successful a bid of cases brought by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) against large tech dominance successful societal media, searching the net and AI.

Last year, the tribunal ruled Google had a monopoly in online search, portion past week it was ruled to person an amerciable monopoly in online advertizing technology.

Google says it volition entreaty some decisions.

Its caput of regulatory affairs, Lee-Anne Mulholland, said successful a blog the government's proposals "would wounded America's consumers, economy, and technological leadership".

The existent proceedings is looking astatine remedies to curtail Google's dominance successful online search, arsenic the caller detonation successful generative AI services specified arsenic ChatGPT has expanded the market.

Newer AI models hunt the net to amended results and trim hallucination, which has been a occupation from developers since chatbots started to go popular.

Last year, OpenAI offered to bash a woody with Google which would person integrated Google hunt results into ChatGPT, according to Mr Turley's testimony.

But helium says their connection was rejected.

"We have no partnership with Google today," Mr Turley said, according to Reuters.

OpenAI does nevertheless person a concern with Microsoft, which makes the Bing hunt motor and Edge browser.

Meanwhile, Google has its ain suite of generative AI products specified arsenic Gemini - a nonstop rival to ChatGPT.

The proceedings is expected to past 3 weeks and different large tech companies - including Meta, Amazon and Apple - volition beryllium keeping a adjacent oculus connected it, fixed they are besides facing their ain monopoly lawsuits from the DOJ.

Separately, reports successful the past week suggest OpenAI is looking into creating its ain societal network.

The Verge reported the task is "still successful aboriginal stages," but the institution and its brag Sam Altman person privately been asking for feedback connected a imaginable rival to X.

OpenAI brag Sam Altman and X brag Elon Musk utilized to beryllium concern partners until a bitter falling-out implicit the absorption of OpenAI a fewer years ago.

X has its ain AI instrumentality Grok, which it has integrated into the societal platform.