OpenAI search engine will be announced next MondayThis is claimed by the Reuters agency, citing two sources familiar with the matter. The chosen date is not at all coincidental (if confirmed), as it would happen just one day before the start of Google I/O, the Internet giant’s most important event of the year.

Alphabet (Google) will be the biggest victim of the OpenAI search engine launch, as it would attack the line of its business, the web search engine that has dominated the market with an iron fist almost since its launch. With regard to Alphabet only pays Apple 20 billion dollars a year To put Google Search as the default search engine in Safari, you can imagine the colossal scale of this case. And what is Google playing at…

Although there are alternatives, even a giant like Microsoft (Bing) has not managed to make a dent in the Google search engine. But beware, OpenAI and its ChatGPT chatbot have the best technology, language and AI data set existing. And that’s why the massive popularity achieved by the chatbot set off all the alarms at Mountain View Barracks.

Even people as important as Paul Buccheit, the creator of Gmail, warned about the situation: «ChatGPT has the potential to destroy Google in a year or two at most. And artificial intelligence will take away the search engine results page where Alphabet gets most of its revenue. “And even if they catch up with AI, they can’t fully implement it without destroying the most valuable part of their business.”Buccheit said.

Analysts believe that the problem for Google could be critical, even existential, if the OpenAI search engine lives up to its expectations. to be an extension of your flagship ChatGPT product and allows you to pull information directly from the web and include citations. Although the chatbot has so far struggled to provide accurate information from the web in real time, it seems only a matter of time before it becomes an alternative.

We’ll see what happens next week and if OpenAI can program an event as important as Google I/O, which is the company’s most important of the year and where everything related to AI (for example, Gemini) is expected to be the star of the meeting with developers.