OpenAI Opens the SearchGPT Waitlist
The awaited blend of search engine and AI is one step closer to public access
Ever since ChatGPT was launched, people have asked will AI tools like ChatGPT replace search engines as the natural go-to tool people use to find information. ChatGPT, along with Gemini, Claude, and other AI solutions, provide natural language answers that are easier to parse than a standard search engine such as Google and Bing. But for internet AI solutions had limitations based on their latest training data.
As expected, OpenAI has changed that limitation. Late Thursday OpenAI launched a waitlist site for SearchGPT, its prototype search platform that combines the contextual ability of AI models with the search capabilities of standard search engines. According to OpenAI, SearchGPT is designed to “give fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.”
SearchGPT represents breaking a big barrier broken. Up-to-date information from the web had been the main limitation for ChatGPT. AI solutions give fast and timely answers but the answers are based on their trained data. They can give answers only as relevant to the data of their last training date, though variations of ChatGPT (and others like Gemini) can incorporate recent information.
