OpenAI introduces ChatGPT search for web sources

By Ovunc Kutlu

ISTANBUL (AA) - American artificial intelligence company OpenAI introduced Thursday ChatGPT search for users to get fast answers with links to relevant web sources.

"ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before," the company said in a blog post. "You can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you would have previously needed to go to a search engine for."

"This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more," it added.

ChatGPT will choose to search the web based on what users ask, or users can manually choose to search by clicking the web search icon, according to the post.

The company said it has also partnered with news and data providers to add up-to-date information and new visual designs for categories such as weather, stocks, sports, news, and maps.

ChatGPT Search will be available at chatgpt.com⁠ besides desktop and mobile apps.

All ChatGPT Plus and Team users, and SearchGPT waitlist users will have access to ChatGPT Search as of Thursday.

Enterprise and Edu users will get access in the next few weeks, while the company said it will roll out to all free users over the coming months.

The move comes as competition in search engines has intensified among Google, Microsoft’s Bing and Perplexity.