OpenAI To Launch ‘SearchGPT’ in Challenge To Google

OpenAI is launching an online search tool in a direct challenge to Google, opening up a new front in the tech industry’s race to commercialise advances in generative artificial intelligence. From a report: The experimental product, known as SearchGPT [non-paywalled], will initially only be available to a small group of users, with the San Francisco-based company opening a 10,000-person waiting list to test the service on Thursday. The product is visually distinct from ChatGPT as it goes beyond generating a single answer by offering a rail of links — similar to a search engine — that allows users to click through to external websites.

[…] SearchGPT will “provide up-to-date information from the web while giving you clear links to relevant sources,” according to OpenAI. The new search tool will be able to access sites even if they have opted out of training OpenAI’s generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT.