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OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let paid users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google

and I'm shocked by the results Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent : OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a search engine Hayden Field / CNBC : OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing with Google and Microsoft Jakarta Globe : OpenAI Launches ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine, Entering Competition with Google Himanshi Lohchab / The Economic Times : ChatGPT now an AI web search engine, reigniting search war among Big Tech Saurav Dey / KnowTechie : OpenAI takes on Google with its new ChatGPT Search Vatsala Gaur / Invezz : As ChatGPT's new search feature intensifies rivalry, here's how Google is holding its ground Shelly Palmer : ChatGPT Search is Here  —  Today is a very big day for everyone in the media business. Nickie Louise / Tech Startups : ChatGPT Search: OpenAI launches real-time ChatGPT web search to challenge Google's dominance Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar : I tried ChatGPT Search and now I might never Google again Swagath Bandhakavi / Tech Monitor : OpenAI launches real-time web search feature for ChatGPT users Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : Google just gave its AI access to Search, hours before OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search Tor Constantino / Forbes : AI Experts — Even Google's AI — React To OpenAI's New Search Feature Martyn Landi / London Evening Standard : OpenAI adds smarter web search function to ChatGPT Simone Lobo / MEDIANAMA : OpenAI Adds Web Search to ChatGPT for Real-Time Answers Kirk / Geek News Central Podcast : OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Search Monumental SEO Disrupter #1775 Axios : 1 big thing: OpenAI sparks search biz change Efe Udin / Gizchina.com : ChatGPT Search is Official: A New Rival for Google Search Samson Akintaro / Nairametrics : OpenAI adds search functionality to ChatGPT to compete with Google, Microsoft Hillary Keverenge / TechIssuesToday.com : Is OpenAI's ChatGPT Search potentially good enough to replace Google Search? Sophia Feona Cantiller / GreenBot : ChatGPT launches powerful new web search feature for real-time information Financial Express : Upgrade alert! OpenAI integrates new search functions into ChatGPT in challenge to Google, Bing The Indian Express : OpenAI's AI-powered search engine is now live within ChatGPT Türkiye Today : OpenAI adds real-time search to ChatGPT, rivaling Google, Perplexity Outlook Business : OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Search, Sparking New Battle with Google Trisha Medhi / YourStory.com : OpenAI takes on Google, releases ChatGPT search engine Mohammad Haris / News18 : OpenAI Search Engine: Google, Microsoft Investors Worried; Alphabet Shares Down 2% Following ChatGPT Latest Feature Harsh Shivam / Business Standard : OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search and Advanced Voice mode for desktop app Rowan Cheung / The Rundown AI : ChatGPT takes on Google Search Jenny Darmody / Silicon Republic : OpenAI adds search engine to ChatGPT The News International : OpenAI challenges Google's dominance with new ChatGPT search engine Mudit Dube / NewsBytes : OpenAI challenges Google with ChatGPT search feature: How to use Tyler Lee / Phandroid : OpenAI launches a ChatGPT powered search engine Ayana Archie / NPR : OpenAI is rolling out a web search feature for ChatGPT Aman Gupta / Livemint : OpenAI takes on Google with ChatGPT's new search feature: Here's how to try it out Shobha Kakkar / MarkTechPost : OpenAI Launches it's Search Engine on ChatGPT David Mihm / Near Media : Way-Too-Early Thoughts on SearchGPT for Local Search Mike Robuck / Mobile World Live : OpenAI challenges Google with ChatGPT Search Pranav Dixit / Business Today : ChatGPT search is here, merging real-time results with AI-powered conversations: How to use it Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie : OpenAI's ChatGPT Search Is Now Available Dennis Schaal / Skift : Hello Google, ChatGPT Just Became a Search Engine Paul Horowitz / OS X Daily : How to Update ChatGPT on Mac Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : OpenAI adds large language model-powered search engine to ChatGPT Sarah Chaney / Laptop Mag : How to use OpenAI's new ChatGPT search engine Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost : OpenAI Turns On SearchGPT After Microsoft Allowed Investments To Impact Profits Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt : OpenAI Unleashes Web Search in ChatGPT, Taking Direct Aim at Google Imad Khan / CNET : Look Out, Google. ChatGPT Search Is Here Ari Haruni / Wall Street Pit : ChatGPT's Search Leap: Challenging Google's Reign Craig Donaldson / Pocket-lint : ChatGPT search goes live as OpenAI aims to challenge Google Cecily Mauran / Mashable : OpenAI: No plans for ads in ChatGPT Search Andrew Tarantola / Digital Trends : ChatGPT Search is here to battle both Google and Perplexity Megan Crouse / TechRepublic : OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Search, Competing With Google, Microsoft Johanna Romero / PhoneArena : ChatGPT gets a major search upgrade with its own search engine Emily Jarvie / Proactive : OpenAI launches search engine in ChatGPT Andrew Heinzman / How-To Geek : ChatGPT Is Now a Search Engine Nickolas Diaz / Android Central : OpenAI takes the fight to Google as ChatGPT Search rolls out Dylan R. Coyle / Android Police : ChatGPT's answer to Google Search is now available Adam Eckert / Benzinga : OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Search, Google Shares Slide Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : OpenAI adds web search to ChatGPT, and may just kill the WWW as we know it Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI launches ChatGPT search in direct challenge to Google's search empire Ryan McNeal / Android Authority : ChatGPT takes on Google Search directly by launching rival search engine Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : ChatGPT search is officially here, this is what it can do Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada Blog : OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Search to Take on Google Yen.com.gh : OpenAI releases ChatGPT search engine, taking on Google Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin : OpenAI takes on Google Search with the new ChatGPT search experience Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide : ChatGPT search is live — here's how to try it now Graham Barlow / TechRadar : ChatGPT search is now live - and it could be the Google replacement you've been looking for Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI just upgraded ChatGPT with a search engine to rival Google Jordan Hart / Business Insider : OpenAI is throwing down the gauntlet at Google by rolling out its new search feature Benjamin Brooks / MIT Technology Review : AI search could break the web Todd Bishop / GeekWire : OpenAI's ChatGPT search engine challenges Google and Microsoft, and further upends the web Juli Clover / MacRumors : OpenAI's ChatGPT Search Now Available as Google Alternative Ty Roush / Forbes : OpenAI Launches AI-Powered Search Engine That Could Challenge Google—Here's What To Know iClarified : OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Search to Rival Google Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : New ChatGPT Live Search Feature Challenges Google with Real-Time Web Access Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information : OpenAI's ChatGPT Adds Search Features in Challenge to Google Britney Nguyen / Quartz : OpenAI launches its search engine to compete with Google Emily Dreibelbis Forlini / PCMag : OpenAI Escalates War on Google With ‘ChatGPT Search’ MIT Technology Review : OpenAI brings a new web search tool to ChatGPT Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : ChatGPT's new web search function puts the web ecosystem (and Google) on notice Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : OpenAI launches web search in ChatGPT Cade Metz / New York Times : OpenAI Folds A.I.-Powered Search Engine Into ChatGPT Reece Rogers / Wired : ChatGPT's AI Search Tool Is Now Available Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI gives ChatGPT its own search engine Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post : OpenAI says ChatGPT Search draws on articles from the WSJ and others it has deals with, and will direct election-related queries to sources like AP and Reuters Threads: Varun / @hexinab0x : This works decently well but the lack of autosuggest/autocomplete for queries adds just enough friction to make me not want to use it daily Reece / @thiccreese : Was really interesting to test out ChatGPT's new AI search, and there's many solid ideas here!  But early testing shows plenty of room for improvement as well: https://www.wired.com/... Joe Fabisevich / @mergesort : Guess it was easier for OpenAI to build a search engine than it was for Google to build a world class LLM.  —  https://openai.com/... Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : The inevitable has happened and ChatGPT has launched their search engine.  I've previously talked about how this is a superior paradigm as a user experience.  People want answers to questions not a collection of ten blue links that they need to click on, block ads on and then hunt for relevant information. … X: Sam Altman / @sama : if early reviews from friends are a reliable metric, search is going to do super well! Bindu Reddy / @bindureddy : ChatGPT's Search Feature Will Make ZERO Difference To Google. Search has become a feature of AI assistants, so the $2 trillion question is whether Google's search dominance will continue. However, the good news for Google is that 95%+ searches start from the phone or the Ethan Mollick / @emollick : Wish OpenAI would have released benchmarks for Web Search the way they do for other models and approaches. It would help people understand when to use it & when to avoid it. That would be better than people stumbling into hallucinations and abandoning using the tool entirely. Sam Altman / @sama : hey i'm really sorry to keep hyping our own product but you really should get chatgpt plus and install the chrome extension for search i am cheerfully the first to admit when we ship something that isn't very good, but this time it's...really good Parker Ortolani / @parkerortolani : I can't see Apple not adding ChatGPT Search as an option in Safari in the near future if all goes well @benjamindekr : I don't really get ChatGPT Search. Tried multiple “searches” and the results are very similar to just normal GPT results. Very text heavy. Was expecting a more search-first experience. [video] Max Weinbach / @maxwinebach : Pls Apple and OpenAI let me force enable search with paid ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence [image] @stammy : Testing out ChatGPT Search.. which style of results do you prefer? At first glance I don't like that ChatGPT Search basically used one source for most of the results [image] @kimmonismus : I have installed SearchGPT as a browser extension. When I enter a question in the URL bar, I no longer land on Google, but on ChatGPT/SearchGPT. And it's so much better than googling. Not only do I get a more direct, better and clearer answer to my question. I can also ask very Ethan Mollick / @emollick : AI web search on ChatGPT works entirely differently than doing a Google search, and requires different instincts. It also still hallucinates. When I ask a question that I know something about, I get different answers every time, with varying quality. Citations are a weak point. [image] Kylie Robison / @kyliebytes : NEW: ChatGPT is officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today, with free, enterprise, and education users gaining access in the coming weeks. https://www.theverge.com/... Rowan Cheung / @rowancheung : AI NEWS: ChatGPT Search is now live for all premium members. First impression trying it: feels fast, and it even pulled our logo. [video] Steven Heidel / @stevenheidel : search the web with ChatGPT. it's search without the ads, without the noise, and without the recommendation to eat rocks daily Alexander Embiricos / @embirico : Knowledge cutoff banished! Now ChatGPT has access to real time information. Big by itself. Magical as we start combining it with all the other capabilities we're building. @kimmonismus : ChatGPT search: global release. It's already available for me and holy moly is it good! That's the direct attack on Perplexity and Google! Gonna test it further but so far: cudos Openai! [video] Ben Tossell / @bentossell : Google grounding with google search ChatGPT search You'll search where you're working, as you're working @openai : We're rolling out now to Plus, Team, and SearchGPT waitlist users on our mobile and desktop apps and https://chatgpt.com/ Enterprise and Edu users will have access in the next few weeks. We'll roll out to Free users over the coming months. Thomas Reiner / @treiner5 : OpenAI coming for top of the funnel travel bookings one piece of the puzzle at a time [image] Sam Altman / @sama : hard to go back to doing it the old way haha Srinivas Narayanan / @snsf : ChatGPT Search is live to plus and team users. You can get better answers with access to real-time information now. @suhail : @sama I think you guys did a really good job with this after trying it out! Kevin Weil / @kevinweil : Search in ChatGPT is here! 🌐 ChatGPT can now provide great answers to more questions—with fast results and links to relevant pages. Ask it about travel, sports, news, anything. As always, would love your feedback. I know you won't be shy :) [video] Artem Russakovskii / @artemr : SearchGPT is live for me and aced the first question. [image] Artem Russakovskii / @artemr : Google and @perplexity_ai just got a serious competitor in search. Alex Volkov / @altryne : BREAKING - GPT-5 was released! Don't believe me? According to the new ChatGPT with search, it was announced during Dev Day yesterday in London 😅 I do love the search option, we've tested it on the spooky stream today, but take it with a grain of salt! cc @TheRealAdamG 👀 [image] Yam Peleg / @yampeleg : AI search battle: SearchGPT vs GeminiGrounded vs Perplexity vs Grok Live on TursdAI, come join! [image] Sam Altman / @sama : search is my favorite feature we have launched in chatgpt since the original the launch! it has probably doubled my usage over the past few weeks. @openai : 🌐 Introducing ChatGPT search 🌐 ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before so you get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources. https://openai.com/... [video] Simon Willison / @simonw : “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. ChatGPT search leverages third-party search providers, as well as content provided directly by our partners” LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski : ChatGPT Search is finally here, if you're willing to pay.  —  ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers can now search for timely information using GPT-4o. … Eric Herbel : As ChatGPT pushes forward into real-time search results, this will be such an interesting space to watch. … Daniel Longoria : Big news from OpenAI!  🎉 We just launched ChatGPT with real-time search, making it easier than ever to get up-to-the-minute info directly from the web. … Conor Dragomanovich : ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before.  —  You can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources … Forums: r/technology : OpenAI's search engine is now live in ChatGPT r/OpenAI : ChatGPT's AI Search Tool Is Now Available r/wallstreetbets : OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing with Google and Microsoft r/ChatGPT : OpenAI: Introducing ChatGPT Search See also Mediagazer

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Discussion

  • @hexinab0x Varun on threads
    This works decently well but the lack of autosuggest/autocomplete for queries adds just enough friction to make me not want to use it daily
  • @thiccreese Reece on threads
    Was really interesting to test out ChatGPT's new AI search, and there's many solid ideas here!  But early testing shows plenty of room for improvement as well: https://www.wired.com/...
  • @mergesort Joe Fabisevich on threads
    Guess it was easier for OpenAI to build a search engine than it was for Google to build a world class LLM.  —  https://openai.com/...
  • @sama Sam Altman on x
    if early reviews from friends are a reliable metric, search is going to do super well!
  • @bindureddy Bindu Reddy on x
    ChatGPT's Search Feature Will Make ZERO Difference To Google. Search has become a feature of AI assistants, so the $2 trillion question is whether Google's search dominance will continue. However, the good news for Google is that 95%+ searches start from the phone or the
  • @emollick Ethan Mollick on x
    Wish OpenAI would have released benchmarks for Web Search the way they do for other models and approaches. It would help people understand when to use it & when to avoid it. That would be better than people stumbling into hallucinations and abandoning using the tool entirely.
  • @sama Sam Altman on x
    hey i'm really sorry to keep hyping our own product but you really should get chatgpt plus and install the chrome extension for search i am cheerfully the first to admit when we ship something that isn't very good, but this time it's...really good
  • @parkerortolani Parker Ortolani on x
    I can't see Apple not adding ChatGPT Search as an option in Safari in the near future if all goes well
  • @benjamindekr @benjamindekr on x
    I don't really get ChatGPT Search. Tried multiple “searches” and the results are very similar to just normal GPT results. Very text heavy. Was expecting a more search-first experience. [video]
  • @maxwinebach Max Weinbach on x
    Pls Apple and OpenAI let me force enable search with paid ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence [image]
  • @stammy @stammy on x
    Testing out ChatGPT Search.. which style of results do you prefer? At first glance I don't like that ChatGPT Search basically used one source for most of the results [image]
  • @kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x
    I have installed SearchGPT as a browser extension. When I enter a question in the URL bar, I no longer land on Google, but on ChatGPT/SearchGPT. And it's so much better than googling. Not only do I get a more direct, better and clearer answer to my question. I can also ask very
  • @emollick Ethan Mollick on x
    AI web search on ChatGPT works entirely differently than doing a Google search, and requires different instincts. It also still hallucinates. When I ask a question that I know something about, I get different answers every time, with varying quality. Citations are a weak point. […
  • @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x
    NEW: ChatGPT is officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today, with free, enterprise, and education users gaining access in the coming weeks. https://www.theverge.com/...
  • @rowancheung Rowan Cheung on x
    AI NEWS: ChatGPT Search is now live for all premium members. First impression trying it: feels fast, and it even pulled our logo. [video]
  • @stevenheidel Steven Heidel on x
    search the web with ChatGPT. it's search without the ads, without the noise, and without the recommendation to eat rocks daily
  • @embirico Alexander Embiricos on x
    Knowledge cutoff banished! Now ChatGPT has access to real time information. Big by itself. Magical as we start combining it with all the other capabilities we're building.
  • @kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x
    ChatGPT search: global release. It's already available for me and holy moly is it good! That's the direct attack on Perplexity and Google! Gonna test it further but so far: cudos Openai! [video]
  • @bentossell Ben Tossell on x
    Google grounding with google search ChatGPT search You'll search where you're working, as you're working
  • @openai @openai on x
    We're rolling out now to Plus, Team, and SearchGPT waitlist users on our mobile and desktop apps and https://chatgpt.com/ Enterprise and Edu users will have access in the next few weeks. We'll roll out to Free users over the coming months.
  • @treiner5 Thomas Reiner on x
    OpenAI coming for top of the funnel travel bookings one piece of the puzzle at a time [image]
  • @sama Sam Altman on x
    hard to go back to doing it the old way haha
  • @snsf Srinivas Narayanan on x
    ChatGPT Search is live to plus and team users. You can get better answers with access to real-time information now.
  • @suhail @suhail on x
    @sama I think you guys did a really good job with this after trying it out!
  • @kevinweil Kevin Weil on x
    Search in ChatGPT is here! 🌐 ChatGPT can now provide great answers to more questions—with fast results and links to relevant pages. Ask it about travel, sports, news, anything. As always, would love your feedback. I know you won't be shy :) [video]
  • @artemr Artem Russakovskii on x
    SearchGPT is live for me and aced the first question. [image]
  • @artemr Artem Russakovskii on x
    Google and @perplexity_ai just got a serious competitor in search.
  • @altryne Alex Volkov on x
    BREAKING - GPT-5 was released! Don't believe me? According to the new ChatGPT with search, it was announced during Dev Day yesterday in London 😅 I do love the search option, we've tested it on the spooky stream today, but take it with a grain of salt! cc @TheRealAdamG 👀 [image]
  • @yampeleg Yam Peleg on x
    AI search battle: SearchGPT vs GeminiGrounded vs Perplexity vs Grok Live on TursdAI, come join! [image]
  • @sama Sam Altman on x
    search is my favorite feature we have launched in chatgpt since the original the launch! it has probably doubled my usage over the past few weeks.
  • @openai @openai on x
    🌐 Introducing ChatGPT search 🌐 ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before so you get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources. https://openai.com/... [video]
  • @simonw Simon Willison on x
    “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. ChatGPT search leverages third-party search providers, as well as content provided directly by our partners”
  • r/technology r on reddit
    OpenAI's search engine is now live in ChatGPT
  • r/OpenAI r on reddit
    ChatGPT's AI Search Tool Is Now Available
  • r/wallstreetbets r on reddit
    OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing with Google and Microsoft
  • r/ChatGPT r on reddit
    OpenAI: Introducing ChatGPT Search