The U.S. government wants to demonstrate that Google's rivals face multiple barriers to access the tech giant as part of its antitrust case. So he turned to Nick Turley, head of product at ChaptGPT, to testify in the hope that it would help strengthen his case.
At a milestone He was sentenced last August.The court ruled that Google had a monopoly on search. While Google is appealing this decision, The Justice Department is asking the court to decide what kind of punishment he faces. Rotating Chrome. or a 10-year ban on releasing any browser product.
to strengthen its case; DOJ OpenAI; Google competitors such as Microsoft and Perplexity were pulled. I want specific executives, As is Perplexity's Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko to testify. (It was unclear whether Shevelenko would do so. The confusion did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
A top executive at OpenAI, Nick Turley, head of product at ChatGPT, will testify in the US government's case, according to recent official documents.
“Mr. Turley is a witness selected by Plaintiffs (DOJ) to testify on behalf of OpenAI,” Google's lawyers wrote on January 16. Legal submission..
“Mr. Turley is an OpenAI witness who will testify on behalf of the government at the evidentiary hearing.” Another file Read from January 16.
None of the documents specified when Turley would testify. Turley is expected to be asked by the US about “Search Access Points and Generative AI's relationship, distribution, barriers to access and expansion, and data sharing.” According to the document. The DOJ did not provide details on what it wants to question Turley about. (These topics are the same. I want to ask. About CBO of Perplexity.).
The DOJ uses the term “search engines” to refer to products such as Google Chrome that people use to search the web. Note that in October 2024, ChatGPT started. Its own AI search browser.
to prepare himself for Turley's testimony; Google has subpoenaed OpenAI for documents related to the case. But now the two companies are in a heated dispute over what credentials OpenAI should provide.
It is a legal submission. On January 16, Google criticized OpenAI for producing “a few spectacular documents”. OpenAI's lawyers fired back, noting that Google's claims from top executives like CEO Sam Altman appeared to be a “Trojan horse intended to harass OpenAI executives.”
OpenAI OpenAI's strategy for AI products; It agreed to share some documents from Turley's work files about the integration of AI into its search products and the Microsoft collaboration. A letter According to OpenAI's lawyers.
Google said it wanted more documents from executives because Turley was a “handpicked” witness by the U.S. government, mostly because it would “damage Google.” file.
Google wants documentation from OpenAI before ChatGPT launches in November 2022. saying They “could undermine Mr. Turley's testimony regarding barriers to entry in the form of post-launch document destruction.” But OpenAI says it's “old documents that don't meaningfully represent the current AI landscape.”
The two sides are at an impasse, and OpenAI is asking the court to reject Google's full proof of claim.
OpenAI and Google did not respond to requests for comment. The DOJ declined to comment.
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