OpenAI is piloting group conversations in ChatGPT

OpenAI has began pilot testing group chats inside ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. Like group chats in messaging apps, you may create conversations with family and friends. On this occasion, although, ChatGPT is among the members, constructing an itinerary as you propose a trip, supplying you with concepts for renovation initiatives or serving to you discover a restaurant everybody within the chat would get pleasure from in the event you’re planning an evening out. You too can use the function to collaborate with classmates or colleagues. ChatGPT, for instance, can define reviews based mostly on the articles and notes you and your collaborator give it.

To begin a gaggle chat, you must faucet on the folks icon on the prime proper nook of the display on any new and current dialog. ChatGPT will create a brand new dialog with out your chat historical past in the event you begin from an current chat. You’ll be able to then add folks or share a hyperlink to the group dialog with one to twenty individuals, who then must arrange a profile with their title, username and a photograph. Take word that anyone who has the hyperlink can invite folks in, and members can mute or take away different members from the chat anytime aside from the group creator. And if anyone within the chat is below 18, the chatbot mechanically limits delicate content material for everybody.

Group chat responses are powered by GPT‑5.1 Auto, which may select which mannequin to reply with based mostly on the immediate. OpenAI says it taught the chatbot to observe the movement of group conversations, so it is aware of when to remain quiet and when to reply, however members can all the time summon the chatbot by mentioning “ChatGPT.” The corporate additionally says that it’s going to proceed tweaking the function based mostly on suggestions from early customers earlier than it’s rolled out extensively.