Explore the New AI-Powered Search Engine for Smarter Results

With the development of a ChatGPT-powered search engine, OpenAI may directly compete with Google and impact the volume of internet traffic looking for news, sports scores, and other pertinent information. 

OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company, announced on Thursday that it will provide a search function to ChatGPT's premium subscribers first, with plans to eventually make it available to all ChatGPT users. In July, it made a preview version available to a select few publishers and users.

How Will OpenAI Search Engine Work?

In a blog post, OpenAI explains how this upgrade combines real-time web search with a natural language interface. 

🌐 Introducing ChatGPT search 🌐

ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before so you get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources.https://t.co/7yilNgqH9T pic.twitter.com/z8mJWS8J9c

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) October 31, 2024

ChatGPT will use its AI to decide when to include search results in responses based on the type of question asked. Paid subscribers can also start a search manually by clicking the “globe” icon in the query box.

The real-time outcomes offer generative AI answers enhanced with numerous citations, links, and pictures. These extra outputs increase accuracy and lessen AI's tendency to make up information when the AI is unaware of some fact.

Who will Have Access to OpenAI Search Engine?

As per the company announcement, access to the OpenAI search engine will be rolled out in stages.

"All ChatGPT Plus and Team users, along with SearchGPT waitlist users, can access it today. Enterprise and Edu users will get it in the next few weeks, and it will be available to all Free users in the coming months," the company said.

When ChatGPT was first released in 2022, it was trained on vast amounts of online material, but it was unable to answer questions regarding recent events that weren't included in its training data.

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