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 officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today (along with SearchGPT waitlist users), with free, enterprise, and education users gaining access in the coming weeks.

To turn off ChatGPT Search as your default search engine, click on the ChatGPT Search icon in your Chrome Extensions bar and click on "Manage Extension" before switching off the "On" toggle.