Fri. 11/01 – ChatGPT Search

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Brian McCullough

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4.7 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

OpenAI officially gets into the search game. Earnings from Apple and Amazon. Why Google is switching up how it does Android. And in the longreads, Meta to win AI even if doesn’t produce AGI, and how downsizing is helping game developers survive the jobspocalypse.

Links:

OpenAI Brings Search Features to ChatGPT in Challenge to Google (Bloomberg)
China Ruins Apple's Quarter (24/7WallStreet)
Amazon Surges Past Earnings Forecasts (The Motley Fool)
Google confirms Android 16 is coming earlier than usual, developer preview begins soon (Android Authority)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Meta’s AI Abundance (Stratechery)
After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller (Bloomberg)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Friday, November 1st, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today. OpenAI
0:09.8	officially gets into the search game, earnings from Apple and Amazon, why Google is switching up how it does Android, and in the long reads meta to win AI, even if it doesn't produce AGI, and how downsizing is helping game developers
0:22.6	survive the jopocalypse. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.9	OpenAI has unveiled chat GPT search to let paid user search for timely information using GPT40,
0:40.3	after testing the feature since July. A direct challenge to Google, sure, but also think about
0:46.7	how this gives them important parity with other competitors in the AI space too. Quoting the
0:52.4	verge. Chat GPT is officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company
0:57.0	is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today, along with
1:01.6	search GPT waitlist users, with free enterprise and education users gaining access in the coming
1:06.9	weeks. Rather than launching as a separate product, web search will be integrated into
1:11.7	ChatGPT's existing interface. The feature determines when to tap into web results based on queries,
1:17.9	though users can also manually trigger web searches. ChatGPT's Web Search integration finally closes
1:22.8	a key competitive gap with rivals like Microsoft co-pilot and Google Gemini, which have long offered
1:28.2	real-time internet access in their AI conversations. In a pre-launch demo, OpenAI, chat GPT search
1:34.6	lead Adam Fry showcased the feature by searching for Apple's stock and any relevant news.
1:39.9	In return, it displayed an interactive stock graph, upcoming earnings information, and news articles
1:44.9	with clickable citations linking to original sources.
1:47.9	There's also a sources sidebar that lets users scroll through a list of relevant websites.
1:53.2	In another example, Fry searched for Italian restaurants in San Francisco, which returned
1:57.5	an interactive map that dropped pins for recommended restaurants.
2:01.6	In both examples, Fry asked follow-up questions to hone the result,
2:05.8	like finding restaurants that are more casual and neighborhoody.
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