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OpenAI announced its long-rumored search engine on Thursday, calling it “SearchGPT,” although it’s being labeled as a prototype for now, and there’s a waitlist for anyone who wants to use it.
“SearchGPT will quickly and directly respond to your questions with up-to-date information from the web while giving you clear links to relevant sources,” the San Francisco-based company said on its preview page.
The prototype is “temporary,” the company said, but added, “we plan to integrate the best of these features directly into ChatGPT in the future.”
Shares of Google parent Alphabet fell after the announcement, apparently due to the perceived threat to its core business, closing down 2.5% at the end of the day. Microsoft shares closed down about 2.5% on the day, as well.
Microsoft, a major investor and partner of OpenAI, initially focused heavily on ChatGPT’s integration into its Bing search engine last year, but has since expanded its focus to its broader suite of Microsoft Copilot tools.
In related news, Microsoft this week announced a new generative search experience for Bing.
