Google’s monopoly delayed innovations like ChatGPT, US DOJ says

SThe Justice Department and a group of states separately sued in 2020, alleging that Google’s deals to ensure its search engine is preloaded on web browsers and mobile devices violate antitrust laws. — Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

ChatGPT and other technology innovations may have been released years ago if Google hadn’t monopolized the search market, the Justice Department told a federal court Thursday.

Days after Microsoft Corp. announced that it would incorporate OpenAI’s AI-powered chat technology into its Bing search engine, Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it would release its own conversational AI product, said Kenneth Dintzer, the Justice Department’s lead lawyer in its antitrust case against the search giant.