I don't get the strategy. Partner with Perplexity one week then introduce your own OpenAI based mini-search the next, and say it's the new product focus?
This isn’t that unusual. Google has both their own search app on iOS and also partners to be the default in Safari, Firefox etc.
This is more like if Google made a big announcement about making Bing available in chrome (and never even had Google search) then the next week said that they’re launching their own search that makes it so you never need to use search in Chrome
I have been trying this out, and it is surprisingly fast and clean, with references provided in expandable sections.
It's like ChatGPT's Browse with Bing, if the result were a personalized mini-webpage.
Yet another AI that leverages and hurt all web sites without even asking permission. Lame.