SearchGPT

OpenAI · July 2024

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Why It Matters

OpenAI's direct challenge to Google Search — combining GPT-4o's reasoning with real-time web browsing and inline citations.

Description

OpenAI's direct challenge to Google Search, combining GPT-4o's reasoning capabilities with real-time web browsing and inline citations. Instead of returning a list of links, it reads web pages, synthesizes information, and provides conversational answers with source links. Later integrated directly into ChatGPT as the default search experience.

Key Innovations

Tool Use
Tool UseAbility to call external tools, APIs, and functions — enabling web browsing, code execution, and real-world actions.
Multimodal
MultimodalProcessing multiple types of input (text, images, audio, video) in a single model.

Related Research (1)

RAGReasoning
2020 · Facebook AI Research / UCL

Combined a neural retriever (that searches a knowledge base) with a sequence-to-sequence generator, allowing the model to 'look up' relevant documents…

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