OpenAI has launched its SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine to rival Google, as well as Microsoft, one of its major backers.
A beta version of the service was launched earlier in July.
The search engine offers up-to-the-minute sports scores, stock quotes, news, weather and more, gleaned from most major news publishers with sources cited in a side panel.
The latest release could have implications for Google, whose stocks tumbled by one per cent Thursday after the launch of the product.
Microsoft, which has pumped close to $14 billion into OpenAI, is also likely to face heat to its own AI-powered search engine Bing, which saw a resurgence in recent months.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote Thursday in a post on X that search is his "favorite feature" the company has launched since the chatbot’s original debut.
"ChatGPT search connects people with original, high-quality content from the web and makes it part of their conversation. By integrating search with a chat interface, users can engage with information in a new way, while content owners gain new opportunities to reach a broader audience.
"We hope to help users discover publishers and websites, while bringing more choice to search," the company said in a blog Thursday.
Users can manually click the web search icon within ChatGPT to search if they choose.
OpenAI has collaborated with its news partners, including The Associated Press, Reuters, Axel Springer, Condé Nast, Hearst, Dotdash Meredith, the Financial Times, News Corp, Le Monde, The Atlantic, Time and Vox Media for content.
The service will be immediately available to all ChatGPT Plus and Team users, as well as members of SearchGPT's waitlist. While free users can access it in the coming months.
ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu users will get access in the next few weeks.
OpenAI closed its latest funding round earlier this month at a valuation of $157 billion, including the $6.6 billion the company raised from Big Tech companies and several other investors.
The company recently announced a restructuring to become a for-profit firm, a move which was denounced by early backers such as Elon Musk as a subversion of the original aim of the OpenAI.
The announcement was followed by the high profile departure of company CTO Mira Murati, though there was no apparent indication that the restructuring washer reason to leave the firm.
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