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Tech Competition is Helping Americans. Here's How.
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Thursday • June 12, 2025
Behind the Curtain: ChatGPT juggernaut
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Has Been the Fastest-Growing Platform in History Ever Since the Chatbot Launched
OpenAI aims to replicate the insurmountable lead that Google built beginning in the early 2000s, when it became the world’s largest search engine. The dream: Everyone uses it because everyone’s using it. OpenAI is focusing particularly on young users (under 30) worldwide. The company is using constant product updates — and lots of private and public hype — to cement dominance with AI consumers. This fight is about winning two interrelated wars at once — AI and search dominance. OpenAI and others see Google as the most lethal rival because of its awesome access to data, and research talent, and current dominance in traditional search.
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Wednesday • June 11, 2025
Nvidia and Perplexity Team Up in European AI Push
The Chip Giant and AI Search Startup Are Offering Specialized AI Models for European Users, Aiming to Widen Their Reach in the Region
Nvidia and Perplexity are partnering to offer what they call localized and sovereign artificial intelligence models to their users in Europe, the companies said Wednesday.
The chip titan is working with local European partners, including the French AI firm H Company, to build open-source, sovereign AI models that will be offered through AI search startup Perplexity’s platform.
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Friday • June 6, 2025
Apple AI Mobile Referral Traffic Could Shake Google To Its Core
Industry Watchers Are Keeping an Eye on Changes to Apple’s AI Intelligence and Search Products
While mobile accounts for more than half of global web traffic, AI search engines are making the biggest impact on desktops. A reversal of user behavior patterns could change that.
Next week, Apple hosts its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025, which showcases the company’s software. Industry watchers are keeping an eye on changes to its AI Intelligence and search products.
The market implications are vast. For publishers it means that while AI search referrals are growing, mobile — the dominant traffic source — remains untapped.
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Thursday • June 5, 2025
Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO says
Srinivas Said That The AI Search Engine is Seeing More Than 20% Growth Month-Over-Month
Perplexity received 780 million queries in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared onstage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas said that the AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month-over-month.
“Give it a year, we’ll be doing, like, a billion queries a week if we can sustain this growth rate,” Srinivas said. “And that’s pretty impressive because the first day in 2022, we did 3,000 queries, just one single day. So from there to doing 30 million queries a day now, it’s been phenomenal growth.”
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Friday • March 14, 2025
Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is Limiting Access to Tools that Boosted its Rivals, but Larger Customers Like DuckDuckGo Say They Won’t be Affected
Microsoft quietly announced earlier this week that it plans to shut down a long-standing tool supplying search engine startups and other software developers with a raw feed of Bing search results. The Bing Search APIs, or application programming interfaces, were once vital to many niche Google alternatives, but fell out of favor more recently as Microsoft hiked fees for the service and restricted its use.
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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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