ChatGPT is launching group chats globally to all customers on Free, Go, Plus, and Professional plans, OpenAI introduced on Thursday. The transfer comes every week after the corporate started piloting the characteristic in choose areas, together with Japan and New Zealand.
The characteristic permits customers to collaborate with one another and ChatGPT in a single shared dialog. OpenAI says the launch turns ChatGPT from a one-on-one assistant into an area the place mates, household, or co-workers can work collectively to plan, create, and make selections.
The corporate sees group chats in ChatGPT as a approach for folks to coordinate journeys, co-write paperwork, settle debates, or work by way of analysis collectively, whereas ChatGPT helps search, summarize, and examine choices.
As much as 20 folks can take part in a gaggle chat so long as they’ve accepted an invitation. Private settings and reminiscence keep non-public to every person, the corporate says.
To begin a gaggle chat, customers have to faucet the folks icon and add individuals, both immediately or by sharing a hyperlink. Everybody will probably be requested to arrange a brief profile with their identify, username, and photograph.
It’s value noting that including somebody to an present chat creates a brand new dialog, leaving the unique chat unchanged.
OpenAI says ChatGPT is aware of when to leap in and when to remain quiet throughout a gaggle dialog. Customers can tag “ChatGPT” to get it to reply. Plus, ChatGPT can react to messages with emojis, and reference profile images.
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The transfer marks OpenAI’s newest step in turning ChatGPT from a easy chatbot into extra of a social platform. OpenAI says group chats are just the start of ChatGPT changing into a collaborative atmosphere, not only a single-player expertise.
“Over time, we see ChatGPT enjoying a extra energetic position in actual group conversations, serving to folks plan, create, and take motion collectively,” the corporate wrote in an e mail to Trendster.
Thursday’s announcement comes lower than two weeks after the launch of GPT‑5.1, which featured each Immediate and Considering variations of the mannequin. In September, OpenAI launched a social app known as Sora, the place customers can generate movies of themselves and their mates to share on a TikTok-style algorithmic feed.





