According to a Bloomberg report, OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, has extended its ChatGPT search product to all users of the ChatGPT chatbot.
Originally released in November 2024, ChatGPT search currently available on the OpenAI mobile app and website for all users logged into their accounts.
This decision comes in the wake of ChatGPT’s massive success at the end of 2022, which inspired tech companies to integrate generative AI into services like online search.
As part of the rollout, users can set ChatGPT search as their default search engine via their web browsers. OpenAI has also introduced a new feature where users can ask queries such as “activities in Zurich before Christmas” and receive verbal responses from the chatbot.
The announcement reportedly came on the eighth day of OpenAI’s 12 Days of Ship-Mas livestreamed product event. During this series, OpenAI also introduced a premium ChatGPT Pro subscription and began rolling out Sora, an AI-powered video generation tool.
In a recent update, OpenAI added real-time video and screen-sharing capabilities to ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode. This feature allows users to share their screens and receive feedback on tasks like solving complex math problems. To get the feature activated for their accounts, a user can easily click on the video icon within the chat window. The screen-sharing option can be found using the three-dot menu.
While it was initially hinted at in May, when GPT-4 showcased its capability to view and describe actions in games respectively, the feature has been made imperative for OpenAI’s internal users and also ends up not being production-ready it is now available for ChatGPT Teams, Plus, and Pro users on iOS and Android. OpenAI anticipates opening it for ChatGPT Enterprise and Education customers in January.
