The war for the internet’s new search engines has begun. Last Friday, OpenAI — the company that sparked the artificial intelligence revolution with ChatGPT — announced the launch of what it calls SearchGPT: a search engine that combines the company’s powerful AI models with information from the web.
The new search engine is integrated into the latest version of the popular chatbot, allowing for real-time searches of up-to-date information from news and content sites through natural language queries.
The new search button appears next to the typing window in the chat, enabling smooth transitions between regular chatbot responses and real-time search results. OpenAI announced its intention to expand the model in the near future, improve search capabilities in areas such as shopping and travel and add voice features to the system as well.
While the engine is currently available only as a paid subscription add-on, the company said that the feature will gradually be available for the…