OpenAI has big news to share on May 13 – but it’s not announcing a search engine

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OpenAIhas announced it’s got news to share via a public livestream on Monday, May 13 – but,contrary to previous rumors, the developer of ChatGPT and Dall-E apparently isn’t going to use the online event  to launch a search engine.

In a social media post,OpenAI saysthat “someChatGPTand GPT-4 updates” will be demoed at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST on Monday May 13 (which is Tuesday, May 14 at 3am AEST for those of you in Australia). A livestreamis going to be available.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman followed upby sayingthe big reveal isn’t going to be GPT-5 and isn’t going to be a search engine, so make of that what you will. “We’ve been hard at work on some new stuff we think people will love,” Altman says. “Feels like magic to me.”

Rumors that OpenAI would be taking onGoogledirectly with its own search engine, possibly developed in partnership withMicrosoftandBing, have beenswirling for months. It sounds like it’s not ready yet though – so we’ll have to wait.

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not gpt-5, not a search engine, but we’ve been hard at work on some new stuff we think people will love! feels like magic to me.monday 10am PT. https://t.co/nqftf6lRL1May 10, 2024

AI chatbots such as Microsoft Copilot already do a decent job of pulling up information from the web – indeed, at their core, these Large Language Models (LLMs) are essentially training themselves on websites in a similar way to how Google indexes them.

It’s possible that the future of web search is not a list of links but rather an answer from an AI, based on those links – which raises the question of how websites could carry on getting the revenue they need to supply LLMs with information in the first place. Google itself has also been experimenting withAI in its search results.

In other OpenAI news, according toMark Gurman at Bloomberg,Applehas “closed in” on a deal to inject some ChatGPT smarts intoiOS 18, due later this year. The companies are apparently now “finalizing terms” on the deal.

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However, Gurman says that a deal between Apple and Google to use Google’s Gemini AI engine is still on the table too. We know that Apple isplanning to go bigon AI this year, though it sounds as though it may need some help along the way.

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