ChatGPT is Search here trying to combine the best of chatbots and web searches. OpenAI’s latest feature searches the web in response to your natural language queries and provides “fast, timely answers with links to relevant web resources.”
When using ChatGPT, the bot will search the web depending on what you ask. Or, if you want to override the decision manually, you can tap the new web search icon at the bottom of the input bar. OpenAI says the feature searches for “authentic, high-quality content from the web” and integrates it into conversational responses. This includes trusted news media sources and data providers such as AccuWeather. Data will include things like weather, stocks, sports, news and maps.
Below each ChatGPT Search answer, you’ll see a Sources button. Click on it and a sidebar with references and links will open.
OpenAI says it uses a fine-tuned version of ChatGPT Search GPT-4opost-training “using new synthetic data generation techniques”. This includes the company’s distillates OpenAI o1-preview. This model is slower than GPT-4o, so maybe practicing on it (instead of using it directly) will help squeeze some thinking skills without having to work too hard on the answers to the new function.
The company used its opinion SearchGPT test to adjust the function. “We’ve brought the best of the SearchGPT experience to ChatGPT,” the company wrote.
The feature will be available for today ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers. It will be available on the ChatGPT mobile and desktop apps and on the web. OpenAI says that Enterprise and Edu users will get access in the next few weeks, and will transition to free users in the coming months.
