Artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI launched its own ChatGPT search engine on Thursday, positioning itself as a challenger to search titan Google and a direct competitor to the Bing search engine from its strategic partner Microsoft.

ChatGPT is expanding into areas that could threaten Microsoft, but we found that ChatGPT mainly uses Bing (Bing.com) for its queries.

OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT search, positioning the company to better compete with search engines like Google, Microsoft's Bing and Perplexity. In July, OpenAI announced it was beta-testing a prototype of the search engine,