While it uses the familiar ChatGPT interface, web search works a little differently. Instead of the bot relying on its training data to come up with answers, it scours the web for relevant and timely information, and then sifts through and summarizes what ...

OpenAI's search offers a glimpse of what an AI-search interface could one day look like. But it's too impractical as a daily driver right now.

What I found, compared to using Google with AI Overviews or Perplexity, is that ChatGPT was cleaner, gave me the information I wanted and had more apparent sources for that data. It also explained why it offered a specific link in more detail than any other search engine I’ve tried.

ChatGPT Search is not a standalone product. It's built directly into the standard ChatGPT interface and will be triggered automatically when the AI deems that a web search is necessary, though there's also a button to manually trigger the search engine.

Also: The obvious reason why I'm not sold on smartphone AI features yet (and I'm not alone) Most of us have learned how to enter specific terms when searching for something on Google so that it can output the desired information.

The GPT part of ChatGPT stands for Generative Pre-training Transformer and refers to the type of large language model (LLM) that uses the transformer architecture but is hardly a