According to a recent report by Bloomberg, Google is currently working on artificial intelligence software that resembles the human’s reasoning ability, which is pretty similar to OpenAI’s o1.
This move is seen as a push to the rivalry between Google and the AI startup, OpenAI.
As per the people acquainted with the project who requested to remain anonymous, multiple teams at Alphabet Inc.’s Google have been making significant progress on AI reasoning software. It is said that these programs are more efficient in solving multistep problems in math and computer programming.
AI researchers are actively looking for the next big thing in the technological realm, and pursuing reasoning AI is one of them.
Thus, similar to OpenAI, Google is looking for ways to estimate human reasoning using a technique known as chain-of-thought prompting, as reported by two people.
In the technique Google used, when asked for a query, the software pauses for a second and responds with a written prompt. In a matter of seconds, it analyzes many related prompts and summarizes the best response to the user.
The tech giant declined to comment on this effort to chase OpenAI.
Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google and OpenAI have been struggling for dominance in AI. Although Google has taken various steps to get ahead, such as merging its premier research labs to form the Google DeepMind unit and fortifying relationships between researchers and product teams, when it comes to releasing AI products, the company has been slower than ever.
When OpenAI launched the o1 model, many employees in DeepMind were worried that the company was slipping behind. But after Google was able to release some of its products, employees were a bit relieved.
Oren Etzioni, a veteran AI researcher who founded TrueMedia.org, said that Google has been a formidable player. “Technically it’s always been the case that Google’s capabilities were top-notch. They were just more conservative in rolling things out.”
