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Friday • February 21, 2025
AI startup Genspark raises $100 million to compete with Google, source says
AI-Generated Search Results Can Offer a Single Answer With Citations
Search startup Genspark has raised $100 million in a series A funding round, valuing the startup at $530 million, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the race to use artificial intelligence to disrupt Google’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab stranglehold on the search engine market heats up. The Palo Alto-based company currently has over 2 million monthly active users, and the round was led by a group of U.S. and Singapore-based investors, the source said.
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Thursday • January 23, 2025
Brave will allow you to tune search results with upvotes and downvotes
Brave Said That its Search Product is Currently Serving More Than 38 Million Queries Daily and Over 1.2 Billion Queries Monthly
Brave Search said Thursday that it is adding a new feature called Rerank that will allow users to tune search results by upvoting or downvoting certain websites. The feature, which will be available to all users, will appear on the top right of the search results page. When users open the panel, they will be able to “raise” or “discard” a domain by clicking on the thumbs up or the thumbs down sign. Brave will then tweak searches by prioritizing results from upvoted sites and ignoring the results from the downvoted ones.
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Monday • December 16, 2024
ChatGPT’s AI search engine is rolling out to everyone
OpenAI Has Also Made Some Improvements to ChatGPT Search on Mobile
ChatGPT’s AI search engine is rolling out to all users starting today. OpenAI announced the news as part of its newest 12 days of ship-mas livestream, while also revealing an “optimized” version of the feature on mobile and the ability to search with advanced voice mode.
ChatGPT’s search engine first rolled out to paid subscribers in October. It will now be available at the free tier, though you have to have an account and be logged in.
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Monday • December 9, 2024
Reddit’s new AI search tool helps you find Reddit answers without Google
Reddit Answers Uses AI to Answer Your Questions with Summarized Information from Across the Platform
Reddit is launching a new AI-powered search tool called Reddit Answers to help you more easily find information on the platform. The tool, similar to other AI search products, responds to queries by generating well-formatted responses and showing links to its sources.
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Wednesday • December 4, 2024
ChatGPT now has over 300 million weekly users
During the NYT’s DealBook Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said users send over 1 billion messages per day to ChatGPT.
ChatGPT now has over 300 million people using the AI chatbot each week. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed the milestone during The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, which comes just months after ChatGPT hit 200 million weekly users in August.
“Our product has scaled … now we have more than 300 million weekly active users,” Altman said. “We have users sending more than 1 billion messages per day to ChatGPT.”
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Monday • November 11, 2024
ChatGPT Search Made Me Quit Google for Good
It’s Not Perfect, but ChatGPT Search is Now My Default Way to Find Information
he most obvious question when OpenAI officially announced in July that it was launching a search engine was whether it would pose an existential threat to Google. At the time, OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, wrote on X that “We think there is room to make search much better than it is today.” That sentiment is hard to argue with. Google might be the best search engine, but I don’t know anyone who thinks Google is a great overall experience.
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