OpenAI brings a new web search tool to ChatGPT

"Our goal is to make ChatGPT the smartest assistant, and now we're really enhancing its capabilities in terms of what it has access to from the web," Fry tells MIT Technology Review. The feature is available today for the chatbot's paying users. While ChatGPT search, as it is known, is initially available to paying customers, OpenAI intends to make it available for free later, even when people are logged out. The company also plans to combine search with its voice features and Canvas, its interactive platform for coding and writing, although these capabilities will not be available in today's initial launch. The company unveiled a standalone prototype of web search in July.