Now you can extra simply use ChatGPT in your Mac pc. OpenAI’s fashionable AI chatbot is offered to all macOS customers, the corporate introduced on Tuesday. The app was first introduced forward of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Convention (WWDC) in June, the place the businesses collectively introduced integrations between OpenAI’s chatbot and Apple’s working programs for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
On the latter platform, customers can rapidly name up ChatGPT by utilizing the keyboard mixture of Choice + House after putting in the brand new ChatGPT app.
This makes entry to the AI chatbot one thing that may instantly really feel acquainted to macOS customers who repeatedly use different keyboard shortcuts like Command + House to pop up a search bar to entry Highlight Search. However as a substitute of extra conventional search, they’ll have entry to a wider world of data, just one button away. As soon as launched, ChatGPT seems as a chat interface overlaid on high of the display screen.
OpenAI’s launch of the macOS app was a bit overshadowed on the time of the unique announcement because it arrived alongside GPT-4o, its flagship generative AI mannequin that guarantees extra superior intelligence, together with the flexibility to deal with not solely textual content and speech but additionally video. (Its multimodal capabilities and skill to know media give the AI mannequin its title — the “o” stands for “omni.”)
ChatGPT’s desktop app was introduced in the identical press launch, as a brand new app for each free and paid customers. The corporate famous on the time that it may very well be referred to as up with the easy keyboard shortcut and customers might additionally take and focus on screenshots straight within the app. Customers can add information and different images by way of the macOS app, too, in addition to converse to ChatGPT from their desktop and search via their previous conversations.
The app had been slowly rolling out to Mac customers, beginning with Plus subscribers, however right this moment the corporate introduced in a submit on X that it’s now obtainable to everybody.
This isn’t OpenAI’s solely integration with Apple units. At WWDC, the businesses introduced a extra expansive deal that will even see Apple prospects getting access to ChatGPT from their iPhones and iPads, together with via Siri and inside different areas that may very well be aided by AI, like Writing Instruments. These integrations are additionally powered by GPT-4o and can roll out to Apple prospects later this 12 months with the launch of Apple’s latest working programs.
