OpenAI would buy Google's Chrome, exec testifies at trial
reuters.com
reuters.com
History would repeat itself and we'll be just switching the web from one behemoth (Microsoft IE) to another (Google Chrome) and yet another (OpenAI) [0].
Would be the worst outcome.
"We believe having multiple partners, and in particular Google's API, would enable us to provide a better product to users," OpenAI told Google, according to an email shown at trial.
OpenAI first reached out in July, and Google declined the request in August, saying it would involve too many competitors, according to the email.
"We have no partnership with Google today," Turley said.
The DOJ's proposal to make Google share search data with competitors as one means of restoring competition would help accelerate efforts to improve ChatGPT, Turley said.
More than Chrome, I think the future of Blink as it pertains to Edge etc will be most interesting. Though I suppose Edge could migrate to WebKit if necessary or if they didn’t want to maintain/fork Blink themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differe...
So it would be weird if Google sold off Chrome, which specifically belongs to Google, and the main thing that makes Chrome Chrome is that it is Google's Chrome on top of the open-source Chromium codebase.
And if Google "owns" Chromium enough to "sell it off" then that new owner will enjoy leverage over even Microsoft themselves, as Edge is also Chromium-based. Not to mention, the Opera browser and many, many mainstream Linux distributions use Chromium directly, so ... that's kind of a big deal!