Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience

pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They don’t want to buy the browser. They want to buy the brand and the users. Chrome makes up over half the browser market. Think of all the data they could extract from Chrome. It would cost significantly more to fork chromium and grow the user base to a point where they could extract anything valuable from them, and that’s assuming they’d be successful enough to make it happen.

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  • mint_tamas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There is no way Google would sell Chrome. But you can bet at least a thousand engineers are working on bolting Gemini onto it right now.

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    • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s no way Google would voluntarily sell Chrome. Unfortunately for them, they might be forced to sell Chrome.

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• Saleh@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No, MS just wants to expand their monopoly, but “MS buying most common browser, after antitrust laws already forbid internet explorer” doesnt ring so well.

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  • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I suspect Altman has ambitions beyond being Microsoft’s cat’s paw, though it may be that that’s all he really is once the shouting is over.

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• RickC137@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Existing userbase

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  • TON618@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I like to think if people want whatever it is OpenAI thinks browsers need AI for, the userbase will manifest itself.

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• MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Suuuuure

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