Alphabet rises after WSJ reports Google to add Chat AI to search

Fortune Minerals

06/04/2023 11:22

** Shares of Alphabet Inc  GOOGL.O  up 0.6% at $105.1 premarket 
    ** Google CEO Sundar Pichai says co plans to add conversational artificial intelligence (AI)
features to its search engine, the WSJ reports  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN369234 
    ** Pichai says advances in AI would greatly improve Google's ability to answer search
queries, the WSJ report adds 
    ** In March, Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI started the release of a powerful AI model known
as GPT-4, which also helps power MSFT's Bing search engine  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N35M1TF
    ** As of last close, GOOGL up 18.4% YTD 

 (Reporting by Vansh Agarwal in Bengaluru)
 ((Vansh.Agarwal@thomsonreuters.com;))