Rumors come true! OpenAI launches AI search prototype SearchGPT!

On July 25th, Eastern Time, a new artificial intelligence search function prototype SearchGPT was released on the official website of OpenAI. This move is also seen as a more direct competition between OpenAI and Perplexity, a startup supported by Amazon founder Bezos.

According to OpenAI, SearchGPT is currently just a temporary prototype, and plans to integrate some new features directly into ChatGPT in the future.

1. Rumors come true

There were rumors in May that OpenAI would launch its own search engine, but this search engine was not released at the OpenAI Spring Conference on May 13. Sam Altman also said at the time that the focus of the spring conference was only on the GPT-4o model.

However, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. Since there are rumors, it is just a matter of release time. Now OpenAI has launched its own artificial intelligence-based search engine prototype SearchGPT.

OpenAI said this is a prototype of a new search feature that aims to combine the advantages of AI models with information from the web to provide users with fast and timely answers and clear and relevant sources.

Currently, the new search engine is only launched to a very small number of users and publishers to collect feedback. This search engine is a prototype product, and OpenAI plans to integrate its best features directly into ChatGPT in the future.

2.What are the new features?

The features of SearchGPT include innovating the way traditional search engines are presented, allowing users to view answers generated by AI without clicking on web pages one by one. Each answer generated will be marked with the source so that users can verify the authenticity of the information. At the same time, users can also have continuous conversations. This search method can combine contextual knowledge just like talking to people.

OpenAI also works with website publishers and content creators to help websites and creators bring traffic through SearchGPT. The answers given by AI will contain clear, inline, named attributions and links to attract users to click to the final website.

It is worth noting that OpenAI also emphasized that regardless of whether the website prohibits its content from being used to train artificial intelligence, SearchGPT can continue to collect data and help the website gain traffic, that is, the GPT crawler can still index the website content to provide it in the search engine, which is different from crawling content for model training.