OpenAI on Thursday announced the addition of ChatGPT Search to ChatGPT, offering improved AI-based searches on the internet. OpenAI says the new search functionality provides “fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you would have previously needed to go to a search engine for.”
ChatGPT Search uses ChatGPT-4o and will be available at chatgpt.com, as well as on the ChatGPT desktop and mobile apps. All ChatGPT Plus and Team users, as well as SearchGPT waitlist users, will have access immediately. Enterprise and Edu users will gain access sometime in the next few weeks. Free users will see access roll out to them over the coming months.
Users can initiate searches based on what they ask or by clicking on the web search icon in the ChatGPT interface. ChatGPT Search allows users to ask a question using conversational language and receive responses, along with additional information via follow-up questions. Since ChatGPT maintains context, a user’s entire conversation can be used to receive tailored responses.
OpenAI has partnered with news and data providers to add up-to-date information for categories like weather, stocks, sports, news, and maps. ChatGPT search results will include links to new articles and blog posts. A sources button located below the response will provide a sidebar with all of the references used.
Global publishing partners includ 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.
