Last August, US justice determined that Google exerted a real monopoly through its search engine, by which pass more than 90 % of requests worldwide. Legislators are now considering several avenues to restore a semblance of balance, including a particularly extreme: forcing Google to resell its essential Chrome browser, whose market share exceeds 65 %. An interesting perspective for other representatives of Big Tech … Starting with Openai, which seems to see a real opportunity.
In any case, that’s what stands Ars Technica Based on the testimony of Nick Turley, Chatgpt product manager. During his hearing in front of the Department of Justicethe interested party first mentioned other avenues to limit the domination of Google. He proposed, for example, proposed to force the alphabet subsidiary to share his search index – the huge database which, in substance, serves as a “web catalog”.
But the most crisp part occurred when Judge Amit Mehta spoke of a possible resale of the browser. Turley was quick to express his interest on behalf of his business, indicating that Optai – just like many other competitors – could be interested in the acquisition of chrome.
4 billion users and a mountain of data
It would indeed be a major opportunity for the company of Sam Altman, for two reasons. To start, still according to Ars Technicathe firm has already considered creating its own browser based on Chromium, entirely designed around Chatgpt. No need to be a seasoned analyst to understand the interest of recovering such a product: by buying the original rather than developing a copy, Openai would mainly put their hands on a basis of four billion users, all likely to become potential customers of his artificial intelligence chatbot.
But from Openai’s point of view, Chrome would above all represent an almost inexhaustible source of data-an even more precious resource than the users themselves. The company is constantly seeking to accumulate more to train its models, because all of its economic model is based on this practice. However, a phenomenal amount of information circulates every day through the browser, and Openai would have every interest in taking it.
It will therefore be interesting to follow the next episodes of this soap. It should be recalled that the possible sale of chrome is still far from being acted; Everything will depend on the decision of the Department of Justice. But if necessary, one can bet without too much risk that Optai will quickly position itself on the file.
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