ChatGPT search opens to all users in challenge to Google [Video]

OpenAI on Monday said it is making ChatGPT-powered internet search available to all users, escalating its threat to Google’s dominance.

The San Francisco-based tech firm had beefed up its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot with search engine capabilities in late October, but made the feature available only to paying subscribers.

The newly public feature enables users to receive “fast, timely answers” with links to relevant web sources –- information that previously required using a traditional search engine, the company said.

The upgrade to ChatGPT enables the AI chatbot to provide real-time information from across the web.

“We’re bringing search to all logged-in free users of ChatGPT,” OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil said in a video posted at YouTube.

“That means it’ll be available globally on every platform where you use ChatGPT.”

Examples of the new interface demonstrated by OpenAI resembled search results provided by Google and Google Maps, though without …