OpenAI launches SearchGPT as a Google Search competitor

Microsoft's new Bing AI search feature uses large and small language models to understand queries, evaluate millions of information sources, and dynamically assign AI-generated content. The company aims to maintain website clicks and gather feedback during the gradual rollout, unlike Google's broader Search Generative Experience introduction.

OpenAI's AI training and inference costs for ChatGPT could reach $7 billion this year. SearchGPT will launch for free with no ads, requiring OpenAI to develop monetization plans.

SearchGPT is a temporary prototype that will combine OpenAI's AI models, such as ChatGPT, with the ability to search the internet, aiming to provide a new way to search the web faster and easier.

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into becoming one of the most-hyped companies in recent memory. And its latest partnership with Apple for its upcoming generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence,..