Sam Altman refutes reports of Google rival as OpenAI announces 'magic-like’ updates today
The OpenAI CEO posted on X, rubbishing reports of launching a search engine or ChatGPT 5. Instead, today's event may tease updates on ChatGPT and ChatGPT 4
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has refuted reports of the company launching a Google search engine alternative. It was widely believed that OpenAI was planning to introduce a Google rival when it announced an event on May 13 to launch something "that feel like magic.”
The AI giant may announce new “ChatGPT and GPT-4” updates at its May 13 event instead, according to Altman’s post on X. “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,” Altman wrote. OpenAI also tweeted that the live stream will demostrate some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.
The new updates have been announced to compete with Google and Perplexity, said a news report. These may help users ask questions to ChatGPT and receive answers that are backed by citations. Visuals may also be accompanied by the replies, according to some reports.
