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Katherine Blunt

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WSJ What’s News

Google Adds AI to Its Search, Taking Aim at Chatbot Challengers

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One of the biggest announcements today out of the conference is that Google is rolling out this AI mode capability, and it's meant to create an experience for users akin to what they might find if they use ChatGPT or one of ChatGPT's competitors or Google competitors.

WSJ What’s News

Google Adds AI to Its Search, Taking Aim at Chatbot Challengers

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And then other announcements that were made today were previews of what the company hopes to achieve in AI, for example, with a universal AI assistant who could be very helpful in managing different areas of your life and the administrative tasks we all have to do. There was a lot as it related to images and videos and the creative capabilities that can come with more advancements in AI.

WSJ What’s News

Google Adds AI to Its Search, Taking Aim at Chatbot Challengers

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And this is a really interesting moment for Alphabet and for Google specifically. Google has struggled to figure out how exactly to embrace AI, given that it does pose at least some sort of threat to the traditional search model that's really been its largest driver of revenue.

WSJ What’s News

Google Adds AI to Its Search, Taking Aim at Chatbot Challengers

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And so this is a big announcement today because it's Google finally conceding that the future of search is really going to be very AI driven and it's going to have to adapt.