This is inevitably one of the first questions we get any time something new is released.
“Will completely new product be available in the API?”
Generally, the answer is “no,” for anything which appears to be consumer facing and this is definitely looking like a consumer product.
The other thing I’ll note is that in their announcement page they call it a,
We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.
It’s not clear to me if that means the product is temporarily in the “prototype” stage or if the entire existence of the prototype s “temporary” and they are planning on shutting it down relatively soon.
It has some real “research preview” vibes to it to me though, so who knows?
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