OpenAI launches its own search engine and will compete with Google

OpenAI announced on Thursday that it will launch a web search engine as an extension of its ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) that it developed, and will thus compete with Google, a reference in this area.

Unlike ChatGPT, which works based on a finite amount of data accumulated in a database, ChatGPT Search, OpenAI’s new service, will search for online elements to respond to user demands.

With this update to ChatGPT, “responses can be obtained quickly and in a timely manner, with links to relevant sources on the web,” the company said in a blog post.

This change allows OpenAI to offer information in real time, something that ChatGPT could not do until now.

Among the data that can be searched may be the weather forecast, stock prices, sports results or breaking news, the company explained.

Some examples shown on the OpenAI site look very similar to results obtained with Google or Google Maps, for example.

Since their launch, so-called “chatbots” like ChatGPT had the limitation of not necessarily offering updated responses.