Everyone is speculating on OpenAI's event on Monday. Many assumed the company would announce an ChatGPT-powered search engine. Others thought the firm might announce a new open-source language model for its popular ChatGPT service. OpenAI's Sam Altman put an end to those rumors with a post on X.
Altman posted on X, saying that the event's focus is "not gpt-5, not a search engine, but we've been hard at work on some new stuff we think people will love!" It "feels like magic to me. Monday 10am PT," he said to finish the post.
Of course, that only means OpenAI won't launch an AI-based search engine tomorrow. There's still a good chance the company could roll out a search tool at some point. Companies like Perplexity are heavily pushing AI search. Google, the leader in search, is experimenting with AI results in the main search feed through
Search Generative Experience (SGE).
If OpenAI were to roll out a search engine at some point, there could be some substantial benefits. "The significant benefit of pairing a platform like ChatGPT with the web crawler-based search is that it allows the language model to act like your own personal search guru
