OpenAI on Thursday launched a gaggle chat function for ChatGPT. The function, at the moment being examined in choose areas together with Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan, lets customers collaborate straight inside the app.

The group chat is accessible to Free, Plus, and Staff customers on each cellular and internet platforms. OpenAI says the pilot is designed to discover how folks use group conversations in ChatGPT.

The announcement comes after earlier experiences that OpenAI had been testing a direct-message-style software.

The ChatGPT maker describes this pilot as only a “small first step” towards making a extra “shared expertise” within the app. Early customers will probably be invited to offer suggestions, which the corporate says will assist form how the function ultimately expands to extra areas and choices.

In keeping with OpenAI, personal chats and private ChatGPT reminiscence keep utterly personal. Group chats are invitation-only, and members can depart at any time. Most members can take away others, although the group’s creator can solely depart voluntarily. For customers below 18, content material is filtered, with further safeguards and parental controls in place.

Beginning a gaggle chat is straightforward. Simply faucet the folks icon and add members, both straight or by sharing a hyperlink. Teams can embody 1 to twenty folks. In the event you add somebody to an present chat, a brand new group is created, leaving the unique dialog unchanged. Every group has a brief profile, and all chats are organized in a labeled sidebar for straightforward entry.

Group chats work identical to common ChatGPT conversations however with a number of folks becoming a member of in. GPT‑5.1 Auto handles responses and comes loaded with options similar to search, picture era, file uploads, and dictation. In group chats, ChatGPT’s utilization limits — which limit what number of AI responses customers can obtain per hour — solely depend when ChatGPT responds. Messages between human members don’t depend towards these limits.

ChatGPT has realized new social abilities for group chats, understanding when to leap in and when to remain quiet. You may tag “ChatGPT” to get it to reply. It will probably additionally react with emojis and use profile images to create customized pictures for the dialog.

The group chat function represents the newest step in OpenAI’s gradual transformation from a easy AI assistant into one thing resembling a social platform. In late September, the corporate launched Sora 2, a standalone social media app with a TikTok-style feed for sharing AI-generated movies, full with algorithmic suggestions primarily based on consumer exercise and placement, parental controls, and direct messaging capabilities.