Overview
Search engine features have been added to OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI chatbot, allowing for real-time, current responses along with connections to pertinent sources. With promises to eventually make it available to free users, this updated ChatGPT search engine challenges Google’s hegemony in web searches and incorporates the feature for paying customers.
As the firm challenges Google’s decades-long hegemony in web search, OpenAI strengthened its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot with search engine capabilities on Thursday.
According to the firm, the update allows users to get “fast, timely answers” along with links to pertinent online resources, which was previously necessary when using a standard search engine.
The AI chatbot can now deliver real-time information from the internet thanks to ChatGPT’s major update.
According to the business, ChatGPT’s homepage can now provide direct access to sourced content on subjects including breaking news, sports scores, and stock prices in addition to weather predictions.
These would connect to news and information from publishers including the UK’s Financial Times, Germany’s Axel Springer, and France’s Le Monde that have content agreements with OpenAI.
The OpenAI website displayed examples of the new interface, which looked a lot like Google and Google Maps search results but without the cluttered advertising.
Additionally, they looked like the user interface of Perplexity, another AI-powered search engine that provides a more conversational Google with answers that cite sources.
The New York Times is suing both OpenAI and Perplexity for unauthorized copyrighted content scraping and linking.
OpenAI has included search into ChatGPT for paying customers instead of releasing a stand-alone product; however, this will eventually be extended to users of the chatbot’s free version.
The search function can be explicitly activated using a web search icon, or it can be enabled by default.
Any publisher or website can choose to show up in ChatGPT’s search results, the business stated, and OpenAI is actively looking for input from content producers to improve the system even more.
“Favorite feature”
The responses given were outdated since data on AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT or Claude from Anthropic, has been constrained by time cutoffs since their inception.
Since OpenAI lacks a standalone search engine that provides more immediate data, this has been perceived as a shortcoming of AI chatbots. On the other hand, Google and Microsoft both integrate online results with AI responses.
Since there would be no advertising for the time being, ChatGPT may provide far cleaner results than Google.
Search is his “favorite feature we have launched” on ChatGPT since the bot’s introduction in 2022, according to a post made by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on X on Thursday.
“I find it to be a way faster/easier way to get the information I’m looking for,” Altman commented on Reddit.
The launch will cast further doubt on the startup’s relationship with Microsoft, a significant OpenAI investor that is also attempting to outperform Google with its Bing search engine.
Altman has put his business on a course to become a major force in the internet.
Microsoft, Tokyo-based conglomerate SoftBank, and AI chipmaker Nvidia were among the investors in a recent funding round that saw him successfully propel the company to an astounding $157 billion value.
Offering search engine capabilities to attract more customers will raise the company’s already high computer requirements and expenses.
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