Google CEO Sundar Pichai has an open challenge for ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, and Perplexity’s Desi CEO Arvind Srinivas

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has responded to mounting criticism from news publishers who claim the company’s new AI-powered search feature, AI Overviews, is hurting their businesses. At the same time, Pichai issued an open challenge to rival companies that say they’re more committed to driving traffic back to the open web.

In an interview with The Verge, Pichai responded to concerns that AI Overviews (and the upcoming AI Mode), which provide quick, AI-generated summaries at the top of search results, are reducing clicks to external websites.