ChatGPT Search

2024: Product Announcement

On October 31, 2024, the company OpenAI announced the launch of the search engine ChatGPT Search with artificial intelligence-based algorithms. It is assumed that the service will compete with, and Google Microsoft Bing Perplexity.

OpenAI claims that users can "search in a more natural, intuitive way" and ask clarifying questions "just like in a regular conversation." The service is a modified version of the GPT-4o AI model and is partially supported by third-party content providers.

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Getting useful answers on the Internet can take a lot of effort. Often, to find high-quality sources and suitable information, you need to enter several search queries and view a number of pages. Now the chatbot will help you quickly find the best answer, "OpenAI said in a statement.

ChatGPT Search provides the latest sports match results, stock quotes, news, weather and more. In building the system, the company actively collaborated with the news industry and global publishing partners including the Associated Press, Axel Springer, Condé Nast, Dotdash Meredith, Financial Times, GEDI, Hearst, Le Monde, News Corp, Prisa (El País), Reuters, The Atlantic, Time and Vox Media. In the future, the service's capabilities will expand, especially in areas such as shopping and travel.

By integrating search with the chat interface, users are said to be able to interact with information in a new way, while content owners gain additional opportunities to reach a wider audience. At the first stage, the service became available to ChatGPT Plus and Team users. In the future, access will be open to all users, including in the free version.^[1]

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