OpenAI is testing an artificial intelligence-powered search engine that can access any information on the internet in real time. The prominent AI startup unveiled its new prototype, SearchGPT, in a blog post earlier this week. OpenAI plans to integrate the new search engine technology with its existing online chatbot, ChatGPT. In a blog post, Microsoft-backed OpenAI said it plans to integrate the best features of the search tool into ChatGPT in the future. Here are some key things to know about SearchGPT:
SearchGPT is currently in testing
The company said it is testing the technology with online publishers who have partnered with OpenAI to help build the search engine, as well as with a small number of users.
What OpenAI said about SearchGPT
“Getting answers on the web can be a time-consuming process, and often requires multiple tries to get relevant results,” the company said in a blog post. “We believe that by enhancing our models' conversational capabilities with real-time information from the web, it will be faster and easier to find what you're looking for,” it added. Users can interact with SearchGPT through conversational queries and ask follow-up questions as if they were talking to a human, OpenAI said.
OpenAI will challenge Google, Microsoft Bing and Perplexity
The launch of SearchGPT, announced earlier this week, will see the AI giant competing with startups such as Bing search from its biggest backer, Microsoft, and Perplexity, a search-focused AI chatbot company backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and semiconductor giant Nvidia, a company that has been tipped to become the world's largest search engine company since 2013. Google dominates the search engine market with a 91.1% share as of June 2024, according to web analytics firm Statcounter.
SearchGPT may be similar to Google's overview
Google recently added AI-generated summaries of query results (called “Summaries”) to its search engine. The new feature displays text at the top of Google search results, before traditional links to websites, summarizing the information the engine believes answers the user's search query. A description of SearchGPT shared by OPenAI sounds similar to Google's summaries:
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SearchGPT is currently in testing
The company said it is testing the technology with online publishers who have partnered with OpenAI to help build the search engine, as well as with a small number of users.
What OpenAI said about SearchGPT
“Getting answers on the web can be a time-consuming process, and often requires multiple tries to get relevant results,” the company said in a blog post. “We believe that by enhancing our models' conversational capabilities with real-time information from the web, it will be faster and easier to find what you're looking for,” it added. Users can interact with SearchGPT through conversational queries and ask follow-up questions as if they were talking to a human, OpenAI said.
OpenAI will challenge Google, Microsoft Bing and Perplexity
The launch of SearchGPT, announced earlier this week, will see the AI giant competing with startups such as Bing search from its biggest backer, Microsoft, and Perplexity, a search-focused AI chatbot company backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and semiconductor giant Nvidia, a company that has been tipped to become the world's largest search engine company since 2013. Google dominates the search engine market with a 91.1% share as of June 2024, according to web analytics firm Statcounter.
SearchGPT may be similar to Google's overview
Google recently added AI-generated summaries of query results (called “Summaries”) to its search engine. The new feature displays text at the top of Google search results, before traditional links to websites, summarizing the information the engine believes answers the user's search query. A description of SearchGPT shared by OPenAI sounds similar to Google's summaries:
(Provided by agency)
