ChatGPT Search, the artificial intelligence (AI) search engine for the OpenAI-built chatbot, was introduced on Thursday. The feature arrives after months of speculation about the AI firm’s SearchGPT waitlist. The web search feature allows users to run a web search about a topic. It provides natural language results based on information from various websites. This new capability has been integrated into the ChatGPT interface and can both be triggered manually and automatically. ChatGPT Search is currently rolling out to paid subscribers of the AI chatbot.
OpenAI detailed the new web search capability for ChatGPT. Earlier reports have highlighted that the AI firm was creating its own search engine. This aimed to reduce the reliance on third-party search engines. The feature also fills an important gap. AI chatbots such as Gemini and Copilot can run web searches based on user prompts.
Notably, the GPT-4o AI model did have real-time web search capability, but there were two caveats. The responses were integrated into the conversation seamlessly. This made it impossible for users to distinguish whether the information came from the AI model’s datasets or the Internet. Second, users did not have a direct way to trigger a web search.
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