Upgrade alert! OpenAI integrates new search functions into ChatGPT in challenge to Google, Bing

OpenAI announced on Thursday a significant upgrade to ChatGPT, introducing advanced web search functions directly within the popular chatbot. Instead of launching a new product, the company opted to enhance its existing model, giving ChatGPT users the ability to access real-time information from the web, a feature that places OpenAI in competition with Google and Microsoft’s Bing.