OpenAI offers to buy Chrome if Google is forced to sell!
Washington, Apr 22 (EFE).-
OpenAI said Tuesday it would be interested in buying Chrome if the court sentences Google to sell its browser to increase competition in the online search engine market, following its antitrust trial in Washington.
“Yes, we would, as would many other parties,” said Nick Turley, product manager of ChatGPT, one of the commercial successes developed by OpenAI, during a hearing held in the District Court of the District of Columbia, according to local media.
Turley, a government witness, testified on Tuesday that Google rejected an offer from OpenAI to use its search technology in ChatGPT.
OpenAI approached Google after experiencing problems with its own search provider, Turley said, without naming the provider, Microsoft’s Bing.
Google has not put Chrome up for sale and plans to appeal the final ruling.
“If we go to trial, the DOJ’s unprecedented proposal would go far beyond the Supreme Court’s ruling and would have profoundly negative effects on American consumers, our economy, and technology leadership,” Lee Ann Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs, said recently.
The trial, which will likely last about three weeks, could change the current ecosystem of the Internet and even artificial intelligence.
In August, US District Judge Amit Mehta found that Google had protected its search monopoly through exclusive agreements with Samsung Electronics to install Chrome as the default search engine on new devices.
Google is not the only tech company facing the Justice Department, as it has also sued Apple, arguing that the company prevents consumers from leaving its devices and software.
The Federal Trade Commission also sued Amazon, accusing it of squeezing small e-commerce companies, and Meta for eliminating its rivals by buying Instagram and WhatsApp.EFE
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