How AI Search Grounding Actually Works: Google vs OpenAI vs Anthropic (opens in new tab)

When you ask a modern AI model a question that needs fresh facts, it doesn’tanswer from memory. It runs its own web search, reads what comes back, andweaves some of those pages into its answer. That process is called grounding. But “it searches the web” hides a lot. Each platform receives a different numberof pages, […]