OpenAI has launched a new way to manage your growth more efficiently ChatGPT chat history Tuesday : a search function for the web application. With it, you can quickly bring up references and previous discussions to cite in your current context. ChatGPT conversation.

“We’re starting to roll out the ability to search your chat history on ChatGPT web,” the company announced. via a publication on X (formerly Twitter). “You can now quickly and easily access a discussion to reference it, or resume a discussion where you left off. »

The new feature is currently rolling out to all users, albeit in stages. ChatGPT Plus and Teams should all have access by the end of Tuesday, with Enterprise and Edu subscribers receiving it by next Tuesday. Free tier users, however, will have to wait a bit to try it out for themselves. History Search will arrive sometime next month for non-paying users.

History search is a separate feature of the SearchGPT prototype which was released in July. SearchGPT is designed to “combine the strength of our AI models with insights from across the web to provide you with fast, timely answers with clear, relevant sources,” according to its product page – essentially mimicking “AI as an autoresponder. ‘save clicks’ from Perplexity. model.

Rather than using AI to summarize search results, as Google’s AI presentation does, SearchGPT would “quickly and directly answer your questions with up-to-date information from around the web while giving you links clear to relevant sources.

The search function in Tuesday’s chat was initially spotted by developers at the end of Augustcodenamed “Fanny Pack Chat Sidebar”. Tibor Blaho, head of engineering at AIPRM, confirmed the existence of the feature earlier this week, while also noting that “SearchGPT’s integration into ChatGPT now has a new, separate feature flag ‘search tool’ (including custom GPTs, where it replaces ‘Web Browsing’ with ‘Search Web”).

Considering how many times Perplexity was accused of outright plagiarism in 2024 alone (the startup is currently sued by News Corp following accusations of copyright infringement on a “massive scale,” OpenAI’s decision to follow suit seems a bit hypocritical – especially after his argument against paying for copyrighted content earlier this year.