ChatGPT-maker OpenAI may have another product to compete with Apple, Google

Google and Apple are the only tech companies whose Al voice assistants – Google Assistant and Siri – are widely used globally. If a report is to be believed, ChatGPT maker OpenAI has also been developing an AI voice assistant and may showcase the technology at the OpenAI Spring Update event.

According to a report by The Information, the purported AI chatbot can talk to people using sound as well as text.

“In the race to develop artificial intelligence that communicates the way humans do, OpenAl is preparing to demonstrate technology that talks to people-using sound as well as text-and recognizes objects and images,” the publication said, citing two people who have seen the new AI.

The company has already shown some of these capabilities – which include better logical reasoning than its current products – to some customers, it added.

“The technology is another step in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's quest to ultimately develop a highly responsive Al akin to the virtual assistant in the Spike Jonze film "Her," and to enable existing voice assistants like Apple's Siri to be more useful,” the report added.

One of the sources told the publication that the company may preview the upgraded Al publicly at an event as soon as Monday at which the company is set to announce upgrades related to GPT-4. The AI announcements will come ahead of Google I/O, which is said to be an all AI event.

What to expect from OpenAI Spring Update event

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has confirmed that the company will not be launching GPT-5 – the underlying technology of ChatGPT chatbot. He also said the company will not launch “a search engine, but we've been hard at work on some new stuff we think people will love! feels like magic to me.”

The company said that it will demo new capabilities for its ChatGPT chatbot and GPT-4 language model.