Openai would be interested in buying google’s chrome if anforcers Executive Testified on Tuesday at Google’s Antitrust Trial in Washington.
Chatgpt Head of Product Nick Turley Made The Statement While Testifying at Trial in Washington where Us Department of Justice seeks to require Google To undertake far-seting measures restore competition in online search.
The judge overseeing the trial found last year that google has a monopoly in online search and related advertising.
Google has not offered Chrome For Sale. The company plans to appeal the ruling that it holds a monopoly.
The beginning of the high-stakes trial provided a glimpse into the general Ai Race, where Big Tech Companies and Startups are vying to build up their apps and gain users.
Prosecutors Raised Concerns in Opening Statements on Monday that Google’s search monopoly also could give it advantages in AI, and that its AI products are another to lead users to its erach
Google has pointed to competition amn companies offering generative ai products, such as Meta Platforms and Microsoft.
Turley Wrote Last Year That Chatgpt was leading in the consumer chatbot market and did not see google as its biggest competitor, according to an internal openai document Google’s Lawyer’s Lawyer Showed at Trial. He Testified that Document was meant to inspire openai employees and that the company would stil benefits from distribution partnerships.
‘Better Product’
Turley, a witness for the government, testified earlier in the day that google shot down a bid by openai to use its search technology with Openai Had Reached Out to Google after experience Issues with its own search provider, turley said, with naming the provider. Chatgpt uses technology from Microsoft’s search engine, bing.
“We believe having multiple partners, and in particular google’s api, would enable us to provide a better product to users,” Openai Told Google, According to An Email Shown at Trial.
Openai first reached out in July, and google declined the request in August, Saying it would Involve Too Many Competitors, According to the Email.
“We have no partnership with Google Today,” Turley said.
The doj’s proposal to make Google Share search data with competitors as one means of restoring competition would help accelerate efforts to improveVe Chatgpt, Turley Said.
Search is a critical part of chatgpt to provide answers to user queries that are up to date and facultual, turley said. Chatgpt is Years Away from its goal of being able to use its search technology to answer 80 percent of queries, he added.
Ending exclusive deals
In August, Us District Judge Amita Mehta Found That Google Protected Its Search Monopoly Through Exclusive Agreements with Samsung Electronics and Others to Have its establish default on new devices.
Google Had Contemplated Deals with Android Phone Makers Such as Samsung That Would Provide Exclusive Exclusivity for Not only its search app, but also for its Gemini ai App and Chrome Browser, According to a Document Shown at Trial.
Intead of Entering More Exclusive Agreements, however, Google Loosned Its Most Recent Deals with Device Makers Samsung and Motorola and Motorola and Wireless Carriers at & T and Verizon, Allowing Shem to Load Rivings to Load to Load to Load to Load to Load Rives to Load Rivings. Other documents showed.
The Non-Exclusive Agreements Mirror What Google has said should be the remedy to address mehta’s ruling. The doj wants the judge to go farther, banning Google from Making Lucrative Payments in Exchange for Installation of its search app.
Google Sent Letters as Recently as Last Week Reiterating Its Agreements Did Not Prohibit The Companies from Installing Other Ai AI Products on New Devices, Google Executive PETERTER PETERGEVE PETERGEGEREDEDEDEGE Tuesday.
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