Sam Altman debunks reports of OpenAI search engine, says will reveal ‘new stuff’ on Monday

Hours after it was reported that OpenAI is all set to launch its rival to Google Search on Monday, CEO Sam Altman has debunked the reports. The entrepreneur took to his X (formerly Twitter) handle to shoot down the reports.

Altman said that it is not GPT-5, or a search engine, but instead is something that he and his team have been working on for some time. In his post Altman also said that the ‘new stuff’ will be appreciated by people.

“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 10 am PT,” posted Altman while retweeting a post from the official handle of OpenAI.

The official handle posted that on Monday 10 AM PT (10:30 pm in India) will be live streaming to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates. Interestingly, this streaming is happening just a day before Google’s much-awaited Google I/O 2024 event.

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. https://t.co/nqftf6lRL1

— Sam Altman (@sama) May 10, 2024

Earlier it was reported that OpenAI will be announcing a search engine that will pit it against Google Search on Monday. It was being said that the new AI-powered search product will integrate OpenAI’s flagship ChatGPT to adeptly provide information in real time from the web.

ChatGPT will likely offer direct web data extraction with citations, with an objective of correcting its struggle with accuracy in the past. This is only accessible to Plus subscribers. Regardless of the initial success, ChatGPT’s traffic was reportedly impacted prompting OpenAI to shut down earlier attempts at real-time data integration.

Earlier this week, it was reported that OpenAI has been attempting to poach Google employees to assemble a team working on a special project. Both The Information and Bloomberg had reported that the AI startup was working on a search product.

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