Just last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised during a quarterly earnings call that the company would release the latest in its artificial intelligence technology to the public “very soon.” Google obviously isn’t wasting any time and launched a test version of its own A.I.-powered chatbot on Monday as competition mounts after OpenAI’s immensely popular large language model ChatGPT took the internet by storm in November.
ChatGPT’s launch reportedly triggered a “code red” at Google as its long-standing search engine dominance came under threat, and the tech giant had to move fast to keep up with the app’s creator, OpenAI, a San Francisco–based startup that received a $10 billion investment from Microsoft in January.
