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 likely one of the contributors, constructing an itinerary as you propose a trip, providing 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. It’s also possible to use the characteristic to collaborate with classmates or colleagues. ChatGPT, for instance, can define stories based mostly on the articles and notes you and your collaborator give it.

To begin a bunch chat, you need to faucet on the individuals 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 may then add individuals or share a hyperlink to the group dialog with one to twenty individuals, who then need to arrange a profile with their title, username and a photograph. Take be aware that anyone who has the hyperlink can invite individuals in, and contributors can mute or take away different contributors from the chat anytime aside 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 might select which mannequin to reply with based mostly on the immediate. OpenAI says it taught the chatbot to comply with the movement of group conversations, so it is aware of when to remain quiet and when to reply, however contributors can at all times summon the chatbot by mentioning “ChatGPT.” The corporate additionally says that it’ll proceed tweaking the characteristic based mostly on suggestions from early customers earlier than it’s rolled out broadly.