Google says its ChatGPT rival will arrive soon – and has announced an AI-themed event next week.
Google’s been under growing pressure from ChatGPT and Microsoft in the past few months, and it seems to have finally snapped – the search giant has announced an AI-themed event next week and said its chatbot rival will launch very soon.
The ‘Google presents: Live from Paris’ (opens in new tab) event will be livestreamed on February 8 at 8.30am ET / 1.30pm GMT (which works out as 12.30 AEST for those in Australia). And Google says that the theme will be “reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information”, through “Search, Maps and beyond”.
While that description doesn’t specifically reference the kind of AI chatbot technology we’ve seen from ChatGPT, the event tallies with some bold statements made by Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the company’s recent earnings call (opens in new tab).
During the call, Pichai said that “AI is the most profound technology we are working on today” and that AI is reaching an “inflection point”. This means Google is preparing to publicly join the fray by opening up LaMDA and PaLM – which are, like ChatGPT, large language model (or LLM) algorithms that are trained on huge datasets.
