OpenAI has rolled out a substantive upgrade to ChatGPT’s built-in search, aiming to deliver more accurate and current results and strengthen the product’s challenge to established search engines. The update, released on 13 June, enables the model to run several queries in parallel for complex questions, maintain context over longer conversations and follow user instructions more closely. Users report that answers now draw on fresher web content and provide fuller explanations. ChatGPT can also accept an uploaded image as the starting point for a web search, broadening the service from text-only prompts to multimodal queries. OpenAI’s latest enhancements are designed to make the assistant more useful for research and workplace tasks, underscoring intensifying competition in AI-driven search.