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ChatGPT is officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today (along with SearchGPT waitlist users), with free, enterprise, and education users gaining access in the coming weeks.
Rather than launching as a separate product, web search will be integrated into ChatGPT’s existing interface. The feature determines when to tap into web results based on queries, though users can also manually trigger web searches. ChatGPT’s web search integration finally closes a key competitive gap with rivals like Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, which have long offered real-time internet access in their AI conversations.
This launch comes as AI-powered search heats up across tech giants
In a pre-launch demo, OpenAI’s ChatGPT search lead, Adam Fry, showcased the feature by searching for Apple’s stock and any relevant news. In return, it displayed an interactive stock graph, upcoming earnings information, and news articles with clickable citations linking to original sources. There’s also a sources sidebar that lets users scroll through a list of relevant websites. In another example, Fry searched for Italian restaurants in San Francisco, which returned an interactive map that dropped pins for recommended restaurants. In both examples, Fry asked follow-up questions to hone the result (like finding restaurants that are “more casual and neighborhood-y”).
The new search functionality will be available across all ChatGPT platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop apps for macOS and Windows. The search functionality was built with “a mix of search technologies,” including Microsoft’s Bing, Fry said. The company wrote in a blog on Thursday that the underlying search model is a fine-tuned version of GPT-4o. It was originally released to 10,000 test users as a prototype called SearchGPT in July, and we reported back in May that OpenAI was aggressively trying to poach Google employees for its own search team.
Prior to this update, ChatGPT’s knowledge was limited to a cutoff between 2021 and 2023 depending on the model. OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix said even with live search active, the company will continue to refresh its training data to “ensure our users always have access to the latest advancements” but it is “distinct” from the training of the company’s models.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/31/24283906/openai-chatgpt-live-web-search-searchgpt
Rather than launching as a separate product, web search will be integrated into ChatGPT’s existing interface. The feature determines when to tap into web results based on queries, though users can also manually trigger web searches. ChatGPT’s web search integration finally closes a key competitive gap with rivals like Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, which have long offered real-time internet access in their AI conversations.
This launch comes as AI-powered search heats up across tech giants
In a pre-launch demo, OpenAI’s ChatGPT search lead, Adam Fry, showcased the feature by searching for Apple’s stock and any relevant news. In return, it displayed an interactive stock graph, upcoming earnings information, and news articles with clickable citations linking to original sources. There’s also a sources sidebar that lets users scroll through a list of relevant websites. In another example, Fry searched for Italian restaurants in San Francisco, which returned an interactive map that dropped pins for recommended restaurants. In both examples, Fry asked follow-up questions to hone the result (like finding restaurants that are “more casual and neighborhood-y”).
The new search functionality will be available across all ChatGPT platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop apps for macOS and Windows. The search functionality was built with “a mix of search technologies,” including Microsoft’s Bing, Fry said. The company wrote in a blog on Thursday that the underlying search model is a fine-tuned version of GPT-4o. It was originally released to 10,000 test users as a prototype called SearchGPT in July, and we reported back in May that OpenAI was aggressively trying to poach Google employees for its own search team.
Prior to this update, ChatGPT’s knowledge was limited to a cutoff between 2021 and 2023 depending on the model. OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix said even with live search active, the company will continue to refresh its training data to “ensure our users always have access to the latest advancements” but it is “distinct” from the training of the company’s models.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/31/24283906/openai-chatgpt-live-web-search-searchgpt
