OpenAI announced on Monday that ChatGPT-powered internet search will be open to all users. This makes OpenAI an even bigger threat to Google’s dominance.
The tech company in San Francisco added search engine features to its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot at the end of October, but only paid users could use them.
The company said that the new public feature lets users get “fast, timely answers” with links to relevant web sources. This is information that they could only get by using a standard search engine before.
With the update to ChatGPT, the AI robot can give you information from all over the web in real time.
In a YouTube video, OpenAI’s chief product officer Kevin Weil said, “We’re adding search to ChatGPT for all free users who are logged in.”
“That means it’ll be available globally on every platform where you use ChatGPT.”
For example, OpenAI showed off examples of the new interface that looked like Google Search and Google Maps results, but without all the ads.
They also looked a lot like the layout of Perplexity, which is another AI-powered search engine that shows the sources it used in the answer to make it more conversational than Google.
In the video, Adam Fry, who leads the product for ChatGPT Search, said, “We’re really just making the ChatGPT experience that you know better with up-to-date information from the web.”
“We’re rolling this out to hundreds of millions of users, starting today.”
OpenAI has built search right into ChatGPT instead of releasing a different product.
The search option can be turned on by default, or users can use a web search icon to do it themselves.
Since they first came out, AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude have had limited data because of time limits. This meant that the replies they gave were not up to date.
On the other hand, Google and Microsoft both use both web results and answers produced by AI.
When ChatGPT adds online search, it will make people wonder more about the startup’s ties to Microsoft, which has a lot of money in OpenAI and is also trying to make its Bing search engine more popular to compete with Google.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has put his company on track to become a major player on the internet.
In a recent round of fundraising, which included backers from Microsoft, the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, and the AI chipmaker Nvidia, he was able to raise the company’s value to an amazing $157 billion.
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Adding search engine features to attract new users will make the company’s huge computer needs and costs go up.
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