Microsoft’s Bing could change Alphabet’s Google as the default search service on Samsung Electronics units, in keeping with a New York Times report Sunday.
Suwon-based Samsung, the world’s main smartphone maker, is contemplating making the change, placing in danger roughly $3 billion (roughly Rs. 2,44,810 Crore) in annual income for Google, the report mentioned. Bing’s risk to Google’s search dominance has grown extra credible in current months with the addition of OpenAI’s expertise to supply ChatGPT-like responses to consumer queries.
Samsung shipped 261 million smartphones in 2022, in keeping with IDC knowledge, all operating Google’s Android software program. The Korean firm has long-established partnerships with each Microsoft and Google, and its units come preloaded with a library of apps and providers from each, such as OneDrive and Google Maps. Negotiations are nonetheless ongoing and Samsung could but determine to maintain Google as its default supplier, in keeping with the report.
Google is engaged on a number of tasks to replace and renew its search providers to keep away from dropping floor. Those embrace including synthetic intelligence options to its current choices, beneath a venture named Magi, which has greater than 160 folks engaged on it, the Times reported.
Google is “excited about bringing new AI-powered features to search and will share more details soon,” Lara Levin, a Google spokeswoman, mentioned in a press release. A Google consultant didn’t touch upon the corporate’s negotiations with Samsung. A consultant from Samsung declined to remark.
Between its Samsung deal and one with Apple, which the Times report valued at roughly $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1,639,174 Crore) in annual income, the Mountain View, California-based search supplier has a commanding market share in cellular units within the US and far of the remainder of the world.
Large language fashions, such as the one underpinning ChatGPT and the chatbot performance in Microsoft’s Bing, should not new to Google. The firm has been utilizing LLMs to anticipate the intent of customers’ queries, Google’s chief enterprise officer mentioned on the corporate’s fourth-quarter earnings name in February. Google can also be rolling out Bard, its personal chatbot search assistant, although doing so at a really cautious tempo.
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