@Techaltar

“But also there is now a unique moment where you can use that type of index to build a very different experience — using generative AI to create a different experience — and we don’t want to be restricted in using that technology.”

Two more players that are joining forces to capitalize on the AI grift :(

We've seen a hundred times that even with the best* indexes and highest-quality models ran on massive datacenters, GenAI will still tell you to eat rocks and put glue on your pizza, or miss the point of a longer article because it's effectively just calculating what's the most likely to be the contents of what it's just been fed

*: to be debated

Perplexity didn't make Bing's results better, when Microsoft did it themselves they didn't get better, when Google rolled out Gemini and AI Overview it didn't get better. GenAI is not the solution to our search problem and has inherent dangers that are not being addressed.