OpenAI on Thursday beefed up its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot with search engine capabilities, as the startup takes on Google’s decades-long dominance of web search.
The upgrade 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 significant upgrade to ChatGPT enables the AI chatbot to provide real-time information from across the web.
ChatGPT’s homepage can now also offer direct tabs to sourced material on topics ranging from weather forecasts and stock prices to sports scores and breaking news, the company said.
These would link to news and data from providers that have signed content deals with OpenAI, including France’s Le Monde, Germany’s Axel Springer and the UK’s Financial Times.
Examples of the new interface shown on the OpenAI website closely resembled search results on Google and Google Maps, though without the clutter …