On the eighth day of Christmas…er, the eighth day of “The 12 Days of OpenAI” (a series of holiday-themed announcements from the company behind ChatGPT), OpenAI took its now-familiar turn. direct current on YouTube announcing a series of search-related updates for its signature AI chatbot.

Specifically, OpenAI has just unveiled three major updates Internet search experience in ChatGPTit was officially relaunched in October 2024 after a separate run, an invitation-only preview website called SearchGPT a few months ago.

Here's what's changed:

1. ChatGPT is Search Now available to all users worldwideeven free users—when logged in. You'll need to create a free account to get it, but once you've done that, you can click the little globe icon below the "create" bar to activate and update it. Unlike ChatGPT Plus and above (Pro, Edu, Team, Enterprise), which is only available to paid subscribers, the information is displayed directly from the web in your replies.
2. OpenAI has updated the search results experience in ChatGPT to be more visible links to web pages for example, Netflix or travel booking websites appear before The rest are text-based responses written by the chatbot.
3. The most impressive and biggest update is this users can now search by voice query when they have Enhanced Sound mode enabled (turn it on by clicking the audio waveform button in the note bar at the bottom, which looks like a series of parallel vertical lines). It allows the user to ask for the latest information on travel destinations, the latest weather forecasts, and even ideas for activities (as well as, presumably, everything in the world that isn't sexually explicit - not a ChatGPT Search). does not offer this feature). ChatGPT's Voice Assistant responds with the voice you choose to use from among 10 preset voice style options.

Also part of the second update: OpenAI made the ChatGPT mobile apps for iOS and Android devices integrate with those platforms' respective maps, so when you search for nearby restaurants, it uses the system map app on your device. to display a list of results (Apple Maps or Google Maps, respectively).

All in all, these are a number of useful, if not blockbuster improvements, and should help ChatGPT users on the go.

OpenAI presenters teased that tomorrow, the ninth of OpenAI's 12 days, will have news to share for third-party developers building on top of the OpenAI platform and application programming interfaces (APIs). Stay in touch, we will keep you updated.

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