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- Google sees the sudden rise in the popularity of AI tools as potentially the biggest threat to its Search business in years.
- CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly stopped the work of numerous groups within the company to address this threat.
- Google’s own chatbot could rival competitors like ChatGPT, but it could also cannibalize its ad business model.
The sudden rise in the popularity of AI tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E has Google scrambling to protect the future of the company. The Mountain View-based organization fears that this could be the start of something that may ultimately upend its business.
According to a recent report from The New York Times, Google’s executives see ChatGPT as a major threat to its Search business. The situation appears to be so critical that management has supposedly declared a “code red.” CEO Sundar Pichai has even reportedly begun pulling teams off of their existing projects to focus on building AI products.