No plans for Google Search Engine competitor, clarifies OpenAI's Sam Altman

“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,”  Altman commented.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to social media over the weekend to dispel rumors regarding the company's intentions to develop a search engine akin to Google. Altman assured that OpenAI would stick to the mission of artificial intelligence, while improving its AI chatbot, ChatGPT.

“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,”  Altman commented.

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In anticipation of announcing recent developments, OpenAI will be live-streaming the event on Monday when it will announce updates related to ChatGPT and the newest model, GPT-4.

Rumors had it that OpenAI would announce a search engine before Google's major event named 'I/O' in the next week. However, the company clarified that the company was going to announce ChatGPT and GPT-4 enhancements.

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OpenAI has already tuned its AI chatbot and made it responsive and less wordy. The new model, GPT-4 Turbo, is now available to premium subscribers of ChatGPT, and it had been trained on publicly available data until last December.

“When writing with ChatGPT, responses will be more direct, less verbose and use more conversational language," OpenAI said.

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