On the occasion of ChatGPT's second anniversary, OpenAI grandly launched a new AI search engine, perfectly combining powerful language models with real-time information retrieval capabilities. This move marks ChatGPT to make up for the shortcomings in real-time information acquisition, and users will get more accurate and comprehensive answers. This free update will gradually reach all users, including paid users, free users, corporate users and educational users, and is accessible through the web version, mobile app and desktop app. This move not only improves the user experience, but also marks a further intensification of competition in the field of AI search engines.
On the occasion of ChatGPT's second anniversary, OpenAI announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence search experience for it, and ChatGPT has been officially upgraded to an AI search engine and is open to use for free. This update marks ChatGPT to fill the gap in real-time information acquisition, and users can now synchronize the search results for online searches to quickly get more accurate and comprehensive answers when chatting with the world's most advanced AI model.
This feature will be open to all users, with paid subscribers and users on the SearchGPT waitlist immediately experiencing the network's real-time conversation information capabilities, while free users, enterprise users and educational users will gain access in the coming weeks.
Users can use this new feature through web versions, mobile applications, and desktop applications. During the conversation, ChatGPT will independently decide whether to use the online search results based on the user's questions, and the user can also actively trigger the online search.
Judging from the current user experience, ChatGPT search function has been quite complete, with all search components such as weather, stock market, maps, etc., and relevant network links will be quoted in the search results to facilitate users to further understand the information.
Users can also directly ask ChatGPT to summarize the search results, or continue to ask questions based on the search results. ChatGPT and the search function have been completely integrated.
OpenAI said that in order to provide a better search experience, they have collaborated with several news and data providers and designed new visual effects 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 posts, etc. Users can view the sidebar containing references by clicking the "Source" button below the search results.
OpenAI emphasizes that the launch of ChatGPT search function aims to integrate original and high-quality online content into human-computer dialogue, providing users with a new way to obtain information, and also providing content creators with new opportunities to reach a wider audience. . It is worth mentioning that ChatGPT search engine currently has no advertisements.
OpenAI said there is currently no plan to place ads in ChatGPT. However, the operating cost of AI search is significantly higher than that of traditional search engines. It is still unknown how OpenAI can achieve balance between revenue and expenditure on huge amounts of free searches.
It is certain that the frequency of free users using the latest search model will be subject to certain restrictions.
After the ChatGPT search feature was released, OpenAI conducted an AMA Q&A campaign on Reddit, revealing more details. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will release some great products later this year, but will not be named as the GPT-5. He also hinted that the next major breakthrough will be the agent and predicted 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 multimodal, tool usage and other functions to the O series models in the next few months.
Interestingly, just as OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT search function, Google also released its own AI search function, called Grounding, which allows users to obtain real-time and latest information from Google searches when using Gemini. The horn of the AI search war has been sounded.
Details: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search/
ChatGPT's upgrade has brought a new competitive landscape to the AI search field, and its free and powerful features will undoubtedly attract a large number of users. However, cost control and future development under the free model are still worth paying attention to. OpenAI's next move and its game with competitors such as Google will continue to shape the future of AI search engines.