Snapchat's future includes generative AI video Lenses, wherein users can watch themselves cuddling with virtual animals on screen. The first three Lenses the app has launched include the Racoon and Fox, which animate the animals into a Snap. Meanwhile, the third one called Spring Flowers will generate a bouquet of flowers and use a zoom-out effect to reveal who's holding it. All three Lenses, as well as future ones Snapchat releases, are powered by a generative video model the company built in-house. Snap says it will be adding more every week to expand users' options.

Gmail developer Paul Buchheit has predicted that'AI will eliminate the search engine result page' and cause'total disruption' for Google. A New York Times report also said that Google executives sounded a code red within the company amid mounting pressure from ChatGPT. A core way that Google makes money is from advertisers paying to have their links displayed alongside the results of a search query result in the hope that a user clicks on them. The fluency and coherence of the results being generated now has those in Silicon Valley wondering about the future of Google's monopoly'The way I imagine this happening is that the URL/Search bar of the [Google] browser gets replaced with AI that autocompletes my thought/question as I type it while also providing the best answer (which may be a link to a website or product),' Buchheit said. 'The old search engine backend will be used by the AI to gather relevant information and links, which will then be summarized for the user,' Bucheit explained.

Snapchat is the latest company to get in on the AI frenzy. The company announced today that it's launching "My AI," a new chatbot running the latest version of OpenAI's GPT technology that it has customized for its users. My AI is now available as an experimental feature for Snapchat, the social network's $3.99 a month subscription service. The new chatbot will be pinned to the top of the Chat tab. My AI can do things like help answer a trivia question or write a haiku.