Finally, OpenAI’s answer to Google is here.
The company released ChatGPT Search on Thursday. It is an improvement over the SearchGPT version it showed off this summer. OpenAI says that ChatGPT Search, which is part of the ChatGPT platform, will draw from a number of online sources to give “timely answers” to questions.
ChatGPT Search uses a tweaked version of OpenAI’s GPT-4o model to pull information and pictures from the web, such as sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more, along with links to relevant sources. You can then ask follow-up questions to make your search more specific.
You can tell ChatGPT to search the web based on what you say, or you can hit the new web search icon to search yourself.
Some news outlets and other data sources that OpenAI licenses data from are credited in the text and in a sidebar. When you search for “weekend events in San Francisco,” for example, you might get a summary from local news websites. On the other hand, when you ask for restaurant ideas, you’ll get a list of local options.
OpenAI says that questions about election results will be sent to news sources like AP and Reuters.
ChatGPT Plus and Team users will be able to use ChatGPT Search on mobile and the web right away. In the coming weeks, OpenAI’s business and school customers will also be able to use ChatGPT Search, and then free users will be able to do so.
OpenAI has also made a browser add-on that makes ChatGPT Search the Chrome default search engine.
OpenAI says it will keep making search better, especially in shopping and travel, and will use its o1 “reasoning” models for “deeper research.” The company also wants to add ChatGPT Search to Advanced Voice Mode and to ChatGPT users who are not logged in.
Some authors are against AI-generated overviews like ChatGPT Search and Google’s AI Overviews because they say they could take traffic away from the sites that they get their information from. One study found that AI Overviews could hurt about 25% of source traffic because they put less weight on article links.
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OpenAI says it took into account what publishing partners had to say about how ChatGPT Search chooses the most relevant articles to a query and how it figures out the length of article summaries and quotes.
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