Google Unveils New Foldable Phone And AI Features To Search

New Delhi: Alphabet Inc’s Google is bringing more artificial intelligence to its core search product, hoping to generate the same consumer enthusiasm generated by Microsoft Corp’s updates to rival search engine Bing in recent months. On Wednesday (May 10) at its annual I/O conference in Mountain View, California, Google introduced a new version of its namesake engine.

Called Search Generative Experience, the new Google can generate answers to open-ended questions while maintaining its own recognizable list of links from across the web.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said at the event that Google is integrating generative AI into search as well as products like Gmail, which can create draft messages, and Google Photos, which can focus images and fill in blanks. You can modify images like ,

Alphabet shares rose 4 percent on Wednesday. They’re up 26 percent so far this year, compared to an 8 percent gain in the S&P 500 index over the same time frame.

Vice President Cathy Edwards said in an interview that US consumers will gain access to the Search Generative Experience through a waiting list in the coming weeks, a testing phase during which Google will monitor the quality, speed and cost of search results.

After startup OpenAI introduced Silicon Valley’s darling chatbot, ChatGPT, which is better known as generative AI, Google started a furious funding race among competitors. Generative AI can create completely new content, such as completely composed text, images, and software code, using past data.

OpenAI, backed by billions of dollars from Microsoft and now integrated into Bing search, has become the default for many versions of generative AI, helping users spin up term papers, contracts, travel itineraries, even entire novels. Let’s help

Google, the internet’s top portal for years, has found its own position in question ever since its competitors started exploiting the technology. At stake is Google’s slice of the giant online advertising pie that research firm Magna estimates at $286 billion this year.

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Plus, Google released a new foldable Pixel smartphone that lets consumers use the company’s AI. The phone will cost $1799 to start and will come with a free Pixel Watch.

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Google also unveiled a $499 phone called the Pixel 7A, available for order starting Wednesday.