“Bing Partnership with OpenAI’s ChatGPT: New Search Engine Feature for Expanded Information and Recent Data”

ChatGPT will use Bing as the default search engine. That means that ChatGPT gets references to websites and data sources. More recent information can also be displayed.

Microsoft says at developer conference Build that it has partnered with ChatGPT creator OpenAI for that purpose. With the addition of Bing as a search engine, users can see not only the generated answer during a search, but also references to the sources where that information comes from. That’s one of ChatGPT’s biggest shortcomings right now; users cannot verify that the information is correct and cannot click through to a recent source. Bing Chat does. That search engine function again uses ChatGPT.

The search engine addition also makes it possible to find more recent information. ChatGPT is trained on data up to September 2021 and therefore cannot display recent information. Bing could do that too.

The feature is immediately available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers. The default search engine will later also be available to all free users, but the companies do not say when this should happen.