OpenAI Would Buy Google's Chrome Browser, Says ChatGPT Chief

OpenAI would be interested in buying Google's Chrome browser if a federal court orders it to be spun off, the head of ChatGPT said in a court hearing on Tuesday.

- Bloomberg

NEW YORK:

"Yes, we would, as would many other parties," Nick Turley, OpenAI's ChatGPT chief said in response to a question about whether the company would seek to buy Google's browser.

Turley was called by the Justice Department to testify as part of a three-week trial aimed at determining what changes Alphabet Inc.'s Google must make to its business after a federal judge found last year that the company monopolized the search market. Judge Amit Mehta is set to decide by August what business practices Google must modify.

The Justice Department has asked that Google be forced to divest Chrome.

Currently, OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, has an extension in Google's Chrome browser available for users to download. But having Chrome be more deeply integrated into OpenAI would allow for a better product, Turley said.

'Incredible experience'

"You could offer a really incredible experience" if ChatGPT was integrated into Chrome, he said. We would "have the ability to introduce users into what an AI first experience looks like."