On the occasion of ChatGPT's second birthday, OpenAI announced that it has launched a new artificial intelligence search experience. ChatGPT has been officially upgraded to an AI search engine and is free and open to use. This update marks that ChatGPT has made up for the shortcomings in real-time information acquisition. Users can now simultaneously obtain network search results when chatting with the world's most advanced AI model, and quickly get more accurate and comprehensive answers.
The feature will be available to all users, with paid subscribers and those on the SearchGPT waitlist able to experience real-time conversational messaging over the Internet immediately, while free users, enterprise users and education users will gain access in the coming weeks.
Users can use this new feature through the web version, mobile application and desktop application. During the conversation, ChatGPT will independently decide whether to use network search results based on the user's questions. Users can also actively trigger network searches.
Judging from the current user experience, ChatGPT's search function is quite complete, with weather, stock market, map and other search components available. Relevant network links will also be cited in the search results to facilitate users to further understand information.
Users can also directly ask ChatGPT to summarize the search results, or continue to ask questions based on the search results. ChatGPT has been fully integrated with the search function.
OpenAI said that in order to provide a better search experience, they collaborated with multiple news and data providers and designed new visuals for different categories such as weather, stocks, sports, news, and maps.
In addition, ChatGPT's chat content will contain links to sources such as news articles, blog articles, etc. Users can click the "Source" button below the search results to view the sidebar containing references.
OpenAI emphasized that the launch of the ChatGPT search function aims to integrate original, high-quality online content into human-machine conversations, providing users with a new way to obtain information, and also providing content creators with new opportunities to reach a wider audience. . It’s worth mentioning that the ChatGPT search engine currently has no ads.
OpenAI said it currently has no plans to place ads in ChatGPT. However, the operating costs of AI search are significantly higher than traditional search engines. How OpenAI can break even on a huge amount of free searches is still unknown.
What is certain is that free users will be limited in how often they can use the latest search models.
After the release of the ChatGPT search function, OpenAI conducted an AMA Q&A event on Reddit to reveal more details. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company will release some great products later this year, but it will not be named GPT-5. He also hinted that the next big breakthrough will be intelligent agents, predicting that by 2025, AI will be able to perform tasks independently, such as actively sending messages to users.
Kevin Weil, chief product officer of OpenAI, revealed that the company will continue to reduce API costs and will add multi-modal, tool usage and other functions to the O-series models in the next few months.
Interestingly, at the same time that OpenAI announced the launch of the ChatGPT search function, Google also released its own AI search function called Grounding, which allows users to obtain real-time, latest information from Google searches when using Gemini. The clarion call for the AI search war has begun.
Details: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search/