ChatGPT search
ChatGPT answers with live web results and source links, starting with paid users, absorbing the SearchGPT prototype.
Brought real-time web retrieval natively into ChatGPT after the 2023 browsing plugin. As an inference, it became the retrieval substrate for deep research and later agents.
- Date
- Thursday, 31 October 2024
- Lab
- OpenAI
- Kind
- feature
- Access
- app only
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Sources
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