OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday
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it was always a money grab, and now it is more transparent. this was just a startup selling a dream for a payday. it just hurts more because everyone is excited by the dream. this isn’t simply the loss of a better slap chop.
other money grabs involve open source, the model isn’t the money grab, it supports it. those will provide more fun. more progress. some can afford to even do so quickly. more will change.
something will arise as a search competitor for openai, sama will have already squeezed enough juice out of it for something, the cycle will continue anew.
or someone will build something that invalidates the lot of it and we can move forward a bit more quickly.
They could do a Group feature or social/community formation feature around people with similar questions close by etc.
It's more organic than tweeter/X and something that should be built-in part of web IMO.
The problem is probably that without accounts you can't fight with bots easily
Remember a project that where supposed to fix that but I don’t know what happened, I guess no one was interested in it?
Right now id says t's going to fail. Not only are they not better than Google by enough, id say they're worse. This could change, but I think the "ai" aspect detracts from being a good search engine.
Who can tell me how and why is Perplexity.ai is worth $1BN? How much revenue are they making vs the amount of money they are burning? What is the justification of this valuation?
Since those 'citations' and 'search results' are all from (guess where) Google Search! So Perplexity's sources are no better than Google. Additionally, I do not know anyone outside of this AI tech bubble that knows about 'Perplexity' and they only have heard of Google, Bing and ChatGPT.
The hype around Perplexity seems to be another co-ordinated VC vehicle for another company to acquire them at an inflated valuation and it looks like it is going to be no-one else but Amazon Inc.
This hype is almost the same as the Clubhouse hype which that company is somehow worth $4BN when it clearly isn't. Given that Google now offers search grounding, enterprise-level generative AI features for GCP customers, Perplexity's valuation obviously looks significantly inflated for the deliberate purpose of someone else acquiring them.
The result is predictable and unsurprising. I predict that Perplexity will just get acquired by a big tech company.
I saw that they had an app on Appstore so I made my sister download it and try it, she liked it aswell, seeing the sources and citations is a huge bonus.
I wasn’t really sure what the search source is, I assumed it was bing but you seem more confident so I assume they rely on Google.
Isn't OpenAI owned by Microsoft, just like Bing ?
Wasn't Bing offering "AI powered search results" (which were total crap IMHO but that's another story).
Is Microsoft canibalising Microsoft ?
that is a very microsoft thing to do
I once found three Microsoft apps on Appstore that had the same features and everything but with a little different ui design.
I think it was the Bing app, Microsoft Start and Copilot.
Lync, Skype for Business, and Teams. And that doesn’t include the non business focused alternatives such as Skype and MSN (although I’m not sure if MSN overlapped with the rest of them).