The ChatGPT Search (OpenAI)
ChatGPT Search uses conversational AI to answer user questions, providing summarized answers sourced in real time from the web and partnered publishers. It supports follow-up questions and visual results, with links to sources for fact verification.

Perplexity
Perplexity delivers conversational responses backed by real-time web sources, always including citations. It’s designed as a research assistant, synthesizing information from multiple sources and supporting various AI models for deeper research and quick answers.

Google’s AI Overviews
Google’s AI Overviews appear at the top of search results as summarized, AI-generated answers to queries. These snapshots include key points and links to source websites for further exploration, helping users get answers without sifting through traditional listings.

Microsoft Copilot
Copilot Search is integrated into Microsoft 365, offering AI-powered, semantic search across organizational and web data. It summarizes relevant results and links search to chat-based exploration, designed for quick answers and deeper follow-ups in business environments.

Claude
Claude, by Anthropic, is a generative AI assistant with integrated web search. It answers questions with up-to-date information by searching the internet in real time, then delivers summarized responses with direct citations for easy fact checking.

Grok
Grok, developed by xAI, is a generative AI search engine that provides fast, accurate answers by combining real-time web indexing and semantic understanding. It’s tightly integrated with X (formerly Twitter), allowing direct access to trending topics, news, and live data.