There's a new AI-backed search engine in town. But can it stand up to Google's decades-long hold on internet searches?

ChatGPT is officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today (along with SearchGPT waitlist users), with free, enterprise, and education users gaining access in the coming weeks.

OpenAI on Thursday unveiled a new ChatGPT search engine, directly competing with Microsoft Bing and Google’s core search business.

SearchGPT was initially launched in July as a prototype, from which OpenAI planned to integrate the best features with ChatGPT later. OpenAI has collected that feedback and implemented it into its search experience, claiming it brought "the best of the SearchGPT experience" into the chatbot.

OpenAI has added search engine capabilities to ChatGPT, challenging Google's web search dominance. However, it's only available to paid users.

OpenAI has embedded a search engine in its popular ChatGPT chatbot, as tech companies compete to use artificial intelligence to improve search results.

ChatGPT search will draw from news media OpenAI made deals with. OpenAI says “context” will differentiate it from Google Search.

OpenAI has partnered with a number of news organizations so its search engine will be able to pull from these companies’ content for its SearchGPT.

OpenAI has added a real-time search engine to ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to deliver better responses to prompts about sports, news and weather. Why it matters: The move puts OpenAI more directly in competition with Google's core business,

As a Halloween treat for ChatGPT users (and a trick for the likes of Google and Bing), OpenAI has turned its AI chatbot into an internet search engine. As the company explains in a blog post, ChatGPT is now better than ever at searching the web and capable of providing fast and timely answers to your questions with links to relevant sources.