GPT-4o Search Preview

GPT-4o with integrated web search capability, allowing real-time retrieval and citation of current information from the internet during inference.

Strengths

Combines GPT-4o's multimodal processing with live web search, enabling responses grounded in current data without needing pre-fetched context.

Best for

Tasks requiring up-to-date information, fact-checking, research summarization, and answering questions about recent events or evolving topics.

Limitations

Search results depend on internet availability and search index freshness; reasoning tasks requiring extended chain-of-thought processing are better handled by the o-series models.