OpenAI announced a new AI-powered search engine prototype called SearchGPT. It's described SearchGPT as "a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources." The company plans to test out the product with 10,000 initial users, then roll it into ChatGPT after gathering feedback. It's a spicy time to launch AI-powered search engines. Last month, Perplexity faced criticism for summarizing stories from Forbes and Wired without adequate attribution or backlinks to the publications.

OpenAI has revealed that GPT-4, the latest version of its primary large language model, exhibits "human-level performance" on various professional and academic tests, including passing a simulated bar exam in the top 10% of test takers. The update is a huge improvement from GPT-3.5, which scored around the bottom 10%, OpenAI said in an announcement Tuesday. GPT-4, which learns its skills by analyzing huge amounts of data culled from the internet, was designed to power artificial intelligence chatbots such as Bing's AI chat and OpenAI's ChatGPT as well as various other systems, from business software to personal online tutors. OpenAI said in a blog post that the new model is "more creative and collaborative than ever before" and "can solve difficult problems with greater accuracy, thanks to its broader general knowledge and problem-solving abilities." "The difference comes out when the complexity of the task reaches a sufficient threshold," OpenAI wrote.

OpenAI has revealed the projected pricing plans for its API, which lets people use the company's vaunted AI tools on "virtually any English language task." But you're gonna need money to burn if you wanna try it out. The API gives users access to GPT-3, OpenAI's headline-grabbing text generator. The company says developers can apply it "to any language task -- semantic search, summarization, sentiment analysis, content generation, translation, and more -- with only a few examples or by specifying your task in English." The product was initially launched in a free, two-month private beta on July 11.