OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT, is launching a test version of a search engine that will cite sources of information, including news from content business partners.
SearchGPT will summarize websites, including news sites, and let users ask follow-up questions, as they already do with ChatGPT.
It’s a direct challenge to Google, which also has tried to apply generative AI to its web search. OpenAI says it plans to integrate SearchGPT into ChatGPT in the future.
ChatGPT can already perform web searches using Bing, but SearchGPT will aim for AI-assisted web searching. OpenAI has not said whether it’s partnering with an existing search engine provider (like it does currently with Bing for ChatGPT), or is building its own web-crawling and indexing system.
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