OpenAI desires to purchase Google’s Chrome browser

Within the wake of Google’s newest lawsuit loss, there’s a rising likelihood that the corporate may very well be pressured to divest its fashionable web browser Chrome. If that involves move, one notable purchaser is already throwing its hat into the ring to purchase Chrome: OpenAI.

In response to Bloomberg, ChatGPT’s head of product, Nick Turley, informed a decide this Tuesday that OpenAI can be focused on buying Chrome if Google had been pressured to promote.

“Sure, we might, as would many different events,” Turley mentioned when requested if OpenAI would ponder shopping for Chrome. He added that if OpenAI is ready to combine ChatGPT immediately into Chrome, the corporate would be capable to “supply a very unbelievable expertise” and would additionally “have the power to introduce customers into what an AI first expertise appears to be like like.”

Throughout his court docket look, Turley mentioned that OpenAI tried to work with Google previously to make use of the corporate’s search expertise, however nothing ever got here of these talks. Turley confirmed that OpenAI has “no partnership with Google as we speak.”

Whether or not or not Google is pressured to divest Chrome, spin off Android into its personal firm, or finish exclusivity agreements with different expertise corporations stays to be seen. That mentioned, it’s clear {that a} commodity as sizzling as Google’s Chrome browser—with practically 4 billion customers worldwide and a 66% market share—would draw loads of curiosity.

In the meantime, Google goes to do the whole lot in its energy to remain intact.

Right here’s what Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google’s VP of regulatory affairs, mentioned in a weblog publish in regards to the case final weekend: “The US Division of Justice’s 2020 search distribution lawsuit is a backwards-looking case at a time of intense competitors and unprecedented innovation. With new providers like ChatGPT (and international rivals like DeepSeek) thriving, DOJ’s sweeping treatment proposals are each pointless and dangerous.”