OpenAI has a livestreamed announcement planned for 10 a.m. PT on Monday — nevertheless it’s attempting to keep expectations under control.
The corporate is describing the event as “a probability to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.” CEO Sam Altman, meanwhile, promoted the event with the message, “not gpt-5, not a search engine, but we’ve been hard at work on some recent stuff we expect people will love! looks like magic to me.”
Altman’s wording was presumably alluding to a Reuters report published earlier this week, suggesting that OpenAI plans to announce an AI-powered search product on Monday — stealing some thunder from the Google I/O developer conference, which starts Tuesday. The report also said the announcement date “is subject to alter.”
The Information and Bloomberg had previously reported that OpenAI has a search product in development. In line with The Information, the product will probably be partly powered by Bing (Microsoft is a serious OpenAI investor and partner); Bloomberg said it’s going to work as a feature inside ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to look the net and cite sources — making it less of a black box that returns answers of unknown origin.
So in theory, at the least, OpenAI could announce a search feature Monday and Altman’s insistence that it’s “not a search engine” could still be true. We’ll see.
The livestream starts at 10 a.m. PT on Monday. You’ll be able to watch on the OpenAI website.
