Google is currently testing merging their AI overviews with AI mode. Now, this is something very interesting because it's going to be a massive pivot for the billions of people that use Google every single month. And this is all happening at the same time that OpenAI is going into a quote unquote code red, basically because Gemini is catching up to Chet GPT. They're gaining a ton of ground.
And the growth of Chet GPT seems to have slowed. And I think if Google really fully integrates and merges AI overviews with AI mode, this is only going to exacerbate the problem for OpenAI. The usage is going to increase. And I think this could be a bad look as OpenAI is trying to plan for an IPO in the near future.
So on podcast day, we're going to be diving into all of that. And talking about the implications, not just for OpenAI and their IPO and market, but also for where we see Google moving into the future and how we see this impacting people's search activity, which is a massive part of the entire internet that we see today. So before we get into all of that, I wanted to mention, if you want to try all of the models that we talked about on the show, today we're talking about a lot of the AI models powered by Gemini. You can go try Gemini and over 40 other different AI models on my platform called AIBox.ai.
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And they're saying that Google has gained ground on them. Now this is not something that is shocking for a lot of people. We've all been keeping up to date, I think, on the usage metrics of a lot of these different platforms. And it does appear that Gemini is becoming increasingly more popular.
And it does appear that OpenAI is kind of slowing down in it. So I think that with this new feature, Google is going to start testing, merging their AI overviews. So when you do a search on Google, it kind of gives you this AI snippet at the top. And we can actually mix it with AI mode in search.
That means that users who are going to be searching are going to get the now common AI generated snapshot of key information on a topic or question above their search results. And they can actually choose whether they want to go deeper by asking follow up questions in a conversational interface. Google calls this kind of conversational feature AI mode. It's launched for US users in May.
And it's going to go to global users in August. But essentially, it allows kind of a back and forth chat to happen using, obviously, Google's Gemini AI. It's a very similar experience to chat. But it's going to happen straight in the search results.
It's not just going to be kind of the summary at the top of your Google results. But it's actually going to let you have an AI conversation. I think getting access to that so far, you've just been required to kind of think ahead of time about what type of questions you were thinking about. And if it was more traditional search query, or if one where you could kind of expect to get a quick answer, and then you decide, OK, maybe I should go over to Gemini and ask if I want to have a conversation, or if it's just a quick question, I'll go and stick it into the search box like usual.
So now that they're kind of merging these two, you're not going to have to think about going over to Gemini. You'll be able to do all of that directly from Google. So if you're trying to ask these kind of more detailed conversations, we're trying to explore a topic and get more information about it. It's more like learning an experience.
It's all going to be possible inside of Google. We're kind of used to doing on-geminate. Google now wants to test whether or not it makes sense to differentiate the two experiences. It's kind of the next test that they're doing.
I would say just because of the process of getting information, it can lead to like, there's different ways that you might do that and you might go about that. I think you might have thought, you're starting a simple question. A lot of times then you find yourself like, oh man, I actually got to go a lot deeper in that. So it's kind of tricky to know ahead of time, just because sometimes you don't know what you don't know.
You ask a question. There's like a hint in there. There's something further to need more information on. So you want to go into a deep conversation about that.
So instead of having to do multiple Google searches back to back, you can just have these conversations right inside of it. Robbie Stein, who is working on this project over at Google recently posted on X and said, today, we're starting to test a new way to seamlessly go deeper on AI mode directly from the search results page. And then this is going to go out globally as well. He said, this brings us closer to our vision.
For search, just ask what's on your mind, no matter how complex or long and find exactly what you need, you shouldn't have to think about where or how to ask your questions. He also said, this means you'll continue to get an AI overview as a helpful starting point. And now you can also ask conversational follow-up questions in AI mode right from where you are. It's one seamless experience, a quick snapshot when you need it, and deeper conversations when you want it.
I actually love this because I think a lot of people have kind of talked about the fact that, oh man, like, so many people are using chat GPT, or they can just remember over to be just basically a chat GPT response where you just get these kind of these AI results. But I think a lot of ways I use Google today, I'm trying to remember the name of a company. And I'm like, a company that does these things. And then the website will pop up and I'm like, perfect.
I click on it. I just want to get to the website because I'm doing something on the website. I don't need information about the company, really. And so there's a lot of those types of use cases where chat GPT just doesn't make a lot of sense.
And I will still go to Google for them. But there's also a lot of cases where I just want to chat GPT response. So I think this really merges the best of both worlds on there. And it's going to make this a really seamless experience for what you're doing.
This role is now coming at the same time. There's a huge push inside of OpenAI, because they're delaying a bunch of the products for this code red that they have. OpenAI was going to put out ads. They had an ads for their free tier, which is going to generate more revenue.
They put that on hold. They're just trying to make their models better. And it feels like Google really is moving ahead and getting a ton more adoption on their Gemini model in a way that has OpenAI concerned. I think a lot of this is a Gemini's nano-banana image model and a lot of other Gemini improvements because of that Gemini has grown to over 650 million monthly users as of this month or as of last month, I believe.
And I think with all of that, putting these two together, AI overviews has two billion monthly users. I mean, that's basically just everyone on Google. But I think that's going to give Gemini a really big edge for consumer adoption. If people get used to, like right now, it's kind of like, oh, yeah, I see these AI overviews and they're sort of useful.
But if it goes from that to like, oh, let me ask you a question. All of a sudden, you're not going to chat to have these long conversations. You're doing them all there. And so I think this is essentially really what the vision for Search was from the beginning.
But this is the evolution of where Google has brought it. I think it's going to have a lot of implications for how people use Search. I think we're going to start moving more towards this hybrid approach. Sometimes you'll want a conversation with the chat model.
And other times, you're looking for a website or a specific service or software that you're going to go and move away from the AI model and onto a different service as soon as possible. So this really gives you the best user experience. And if this gives you better user experience, then chat to your pete, right? Because it's not very often that on chat to pete, I'm like, hey, what's the website that does this and this?
And then it pops it up and I click on it and Google on it. Usually, chat to your pete is asking questions and chatting. And so if Google does a better job of that, I think this is a place where more users, if they can get the best of both worlds on Gemini, they're going to use Google and Gemini to complete their tasks. And open AI will suffer unless opening AI can get a little bit better with the search that Google is so famous for and that is currently dominating.
So it'd be interesting to see if they respond with that and they're code red if they really try to take on Google in a serious way and what that looks like in the future. If you learned anything you want to show today, I really appreciate a rating or review wherever you get your podcasts. Drop a comment over on Apple or leave some stars on the About tab on Spotify. Thank you so much for tuning in.
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