ChatGPT is making some changes to its artificial intelligence tool, announcing this week that its ChatGPT search feature, which acts like a search engine, is now available to anyone on the chatgpt.com website, without the need to sign up.
ChatGPT can search the internet and provide links to relevant web sources. You can use natural language to ask for up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes and other information. If you type in a question, you can choose to press the web search icon located below the question bar. You’ll then see a series of links from trusted sources. As with any use of AI, you should be aware of potential factual errors, because AI chatbots are known for hallucinations, or presenting false information as true. The provided links can assist with fact-checking.
In October, the company rolled out ChatGPT search to ChatGPT Plus and Team users, as well as SearchGPT waitlist users, and expanded in December to logged-in users.
The search feature is part of a greater effort to provide ChatGPT with more-useful answers, and this latest news comes as OpenAI continues to ramp up its efforts to be more widespread. Last month, OpenAI introduced a new AI agent called Operator, designed to make everyday tasks easier, from making dinner reservations to ordering groceries to filling out forms.
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OpenAI and ChatGPT also face increased competition, not only from US players such as Google and Anthropic but from Chinese startup DeepSeek.
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