A chatbot-search-engine hybrid to help you learn

Google will not go down without a fight (if at all, tbh).

It’s been a tough few months for Google:

• OpenAI have released multiple ‘search engine killers’, including SearchGPT which is literally a search engine in the form of a chatbot.

• Perplexity is hot on their heels too, with CEO Aravind Srinivas boasting 100M queries per week and announcing ‘next stop: 100M+ queries every day’.

• Fighting regulations left, right, and centre.

I’d almost feel bad if it wasn’t for, you know, their $2.21 trillion market cap.

And so their fighting spirit lives on as they continue to innovate.

Learn About…

… is the latest fighter they’re throwing in the ring.

Learn About is a hybrid between a search engine and a chatbot.

Enter a question, and the bot-slash-search-engine gives you an answer with a deep dive into the topic, lots of context, and further reading.

This is pretty cool

Learn About follows a series of AI-enabled tools released by Google, including:

• Illuminate, which enables you to turn any scientific paper into a robot podcast.

• Gemini, the chatbot that seems to keep popping up everywhere (Google Maps, Google Slides, Gmail, etc.).

• NotebookLM, a personal assistant that summarises facts and help you brainstorm ideas, all based on sources you select.

The most exciting thing about this?

We get to experience, in real-time, an industry giant taking on the Innovator’s Dilemma. This is something we read about in product history books (if those were a thing) — but we get to live it!