OpenAI Wants to Buy Google's Chrome Browser

OpenAI would see purchasing the Chrome browser if Google is forced to merchantability it arsenic a remedy for anticompetitive hunt practices, ChatGPT merchandise pb Nick Turley said today.


According to The Information, Turley provided the item arsenic portion of a tribunal proceeding that volition find remedies to code Google's antitrust violations.

The United States Department of Justice wants Google to divest Chrome aft the DoJ won an antitrust lawsuit against Google past year. The tribunal decided that Google has an amerciable monopoly connected search, and the justice overseeing the lawsuit is present deciding connected the punishment (or remedies) that Google volition look arsenic a result.

The DoJ pointed to OpenAI arsenic institution that's maturation has been hampered by Google's clasp connected search. Last year, OpenAI asked Google for entree to hunt information to bolster SearchGPT, but Google refused.

Along with perchance being forced to merchantability Chrome, Google could beryllium forced to let rivals to entree its hunt data. Turley said that entree to Google's real-time information would let OpenAI to "build a amended merchandise faster."

Google is besides apt to beryllium prohibited from entering into hunt related deals with Apple and different companies. Google has agelong paid Apple billions of dollars per twelvemonth to beryllium the default Safari hunt engine, giving Google a important vantage successful the hunt market.

The DoJ is besides recommending that Google divest Android, but lone if the different projected remedies are not effectual astatine keeping Google from "improperly leveraging" the operating system, oregon if Google tries to circumvent the different requirements enactment successful place.

During his testimony, Turley besides said that OpenAI offered to wage Apple a information of the gross generated by the Siri ChatGPT integration, but it is not wide if Apple has accepted payment, and prior reports suggested that it was a woody that does not spot Apple paying OpenAI, oregon OpenAI paying Apple.
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