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 possibly can create conversations with family and friends. On this occasion, although, ChatGPT is among the individuals, constructing an itinerary as you intend a trip, supplying you with concepts for renovation tasks or serving to you discover a restaurant everybody within the chat would take pleasure in should you’re planning an evening out. You can even use the characteristic to collaborate with classmates or colleagues. ChatGPT, for instance, can define stories primarily based on the articles and notes you and your collaborator give it.

To start out a bunch chat, you need to 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 should you begin from an current chat. You possibly can then add folks or share a hyperlink to the group dialog with one to twenty individuals, who then must arrange a profile with their identify, username and a photograph. Take word that anyone who has the hyperlink can invite folks in, and individuals can mute or take away different individuals from the chat anytime apart from the group creator. And if anyone within the chat is below 18, the chatbot robotically limits delicate content material for everybody.

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