Today OpenAI starts piloting a new feature that puts ChatGPT into shared conversations: group chats. Are you planning a dinner with friends or do you need to build an outline with colleagues? Now you can do it in the same space, with people and ChatGPT collaborating in real time.
What group chats are and how they help you
Group chats let you invite between 1 and 20 people into a conversation where ChatGPT participates as one more member. Think of it like a messaging group that also has an assistant that can compare options, summarize ideas, organize lists, or suggest itineraries.
It’s not the same as your private conversations: your personal ChatGPT memory is not shared, and ChatGPT does not create new memories from these chats during the pilot.
Where and who can use them
For now the trial is active in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan, and it’s available on web and mobile for signed-in users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. It’s a small rollout: OpenAI will collect feedback and decide how to expand it.
