Everyone Wants to Buy Google’s Chrome Browser — Including OpenAI, According to a Top ChatGPT Executive

ChatGPT’s Head of Product was called to the stand in Google’s hearing on Tuesday.

By Erin Davis | Apr 22, 2025
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With of the global search browser market, Google Chrome is the dominant worldwide search leader (Safari is No. 2 with nearly 18%, Microsoft Edge has 5.2%, and Firefox has 2.54%).

So it’s no surprise that, when asked by a judge Tuesday if OpenAI would try to buy Google’s browser if parent company Alphabet is forced to divest, ChatGPT’s Head of Product said a definite yes — and that they wouldn’t be the only company interested.

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“Yes, we would, as would many other parties,” Tuesday, per Bloomberg, adding that ChatGPT and Chrome combined would give his company the chance to offer an “incredible experience” that’s “AI-first.”

OpenAI says it has more than 400 million weekly active users, .

In August 2024, after a 10-week trial, a federal judge ruled that Google the online search and search ads markets. The judge wrote in a that “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly” through exclusive agreements.

Now, Google is back in court regarding the DOJ’s request for the tech giant to to remedy the monopoly. A judge will decide by August what Alphabet must do — like sell Chrome, for example, or license its search data to rivals.

Google is appealing .

Bloomberg notes that the last time a court ordered a breakup of a major U.S. company was AT&T in the 1980s.

    With of the global search browser market, Google Chrome is the dominant worldwide search leader (Safari is No. 2 with nearly 18%, Microsoft Edge has 5.2%, and Firefox has 2.54%).

    So it’s no surprise that, when asked by a judge Tuesday if OpenAI would try to buy Google’s browser if parent company Alphabet is forced to divest, ChatGPT’s Head of Product said a definite yes — and that they wouldn’t be the only company interested.

    Related: Firefox Would Like to Remind Everyone It Exists and ‘Isn’t Backed By a Billionaire’

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