WORLDTECHOpenAI says ChatGPT search volume has reached 20 percent of Google's
OpenAI says queries run through ChatGPT now amount to a fifth of those run through Google. The figure was given by Adam Fry, the company's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, at a press event on Monday.
What OpenAI announced
According to the announcement, the number of queries entered into ChatGPT now stands at one fifth of the number entered into Google. Fry presented the figure at a press event on Monday.
Fry defined a search narrowly as any input that leads to a web search. Requests ChatGPT answers without going to the web, such as defining a term or giving a simple how-to explanation, fall outside that definition.
Background on the two companies
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, founded in 2015, whose products include ChatGPT. Google, based in Mountain View and founded in 1998, offers Google Search, the service the comparison is drawn against.
What remains unclear
The available reporting does not state the period over which the 20 percent figure was measured or how it was calculated. The claim rests on a single report of OpenAI's statement and has not been independently verified.
Open questions
- Over what period was the 20 percent figure measured?
- How were ChatGPT and Google query volumes counted and compared?