$Alphabet(GOOGL)$ AI Assistant Search Could Upset Google's Moat ARK-Logo-BlackBy Frank Downing & Nick Grous | @ARKInvest Next Generation Internet Director of Research & Associate Portfolio Manager Last week, OpenAI upgraded1 ChatGPT’s search capabilities, as rumors swirled2 that Meta is building an in-house search engine to capitalize on its AI’s capabilities. Like Perplexity, OpenAI and Meta are offering AI-driven assistants that collectively could create a significant challenge to Google’s dominance in search. In traditional search, users must comb through a list of hyperlinks ranked by relevance, while the new AI-powered assistants respond with coherent, conversational narratives that they have synthesized from various information