PYMNTS.com April 22, 2025
Last summer, OpenAI approached Google about a partnership to power ChatGPT, but it got turned down.
That information came to light Tuesday (April 22) during testimony by Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of product for ChatGPT, during the remedy phase of the Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust trial against Google in Washington.
According to Reuters, Turley told the court that OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, was experiencing issues with its existing search provider. According to reports by Reuters and Yahoo, that’s Microsoft Bing. Turley stated that ChatGPT was years away from being able to answer most queries using its own search technology, reports said.
OpenAI reportedly contacted Google about an application programming interface (API) integration that would improve ChatGPT’s ability to...







