IBL News | New York
In a direct challenge to Google, OpenAI significantly improved its web search functionality on its ChatGPT, adding links to relevant sources in the queried results. A simple web search icon activates the process.
These search results include news, blog posts, stock quotes, sports scores, and other timely information.
OpenAI has partnered with news and data providers to provide this up-to-date information. Those media partners include 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.
The company made this announcement yesterday.
Search is available only to Plus and Team paid users and waitlist users. In “the next few weeks,” Enterprise and Edu users will have access. OpenAI will roll out this feature to all Free users over the coming months.
The functionality is available at chatgpt.com and ChatGPT’s desktop and mobile apps.
The search model is a fine-tuned version of GPT-4o, post-trained using novel synthetic data generation techniques, including distilling outputs from OpenAI o1-preview.
“Thanks to feedback from the SearchGPT prototype, we brought the best of the SearchGPT experience into ChatGPT. We plan to keep improving search, particularly in areas like shopping and travel, and leverage the reasoning capabilities of the OpenAI o1 series to do deeper research. We also plan to bring our new search experience to Advanced Voice and canvas, as well as to Free and logged out users in the future,” announced OpenAI.
