Piloting group chats in ChatGPT

Piloting group chats in ChatGPT

Today, we're beginning to pilot a new experience in a few regions that makes it easy for people to collaborate with each other-and with ChatGPT-in the same conversation. With group chats, you can bring friends, family, or coworkers into a shared space to plan, make decisions, or work through ideas together.

Whether you're organizing a group dinner or drafting an outline with coworkers, ChatGPT can help. Group chats are separate from your private conversations, and your personal ChatGPT memory is never shared with anyone in the chat.

Group chats are starting to roll out on mobile and web for logged-in ChatGPT users on ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. This pilot is a small first step toward shared experiences in ChatGPT, and we expect to learn from early user feedback to inform how we expand to more regions and ChatGPT plans.

Collaborating together with ChatGPT

Group chats make it possible to bring people, and ChatGPT, into the same conversation. For example, if you're planning a weekend trip with friends, create a group chat so ChatGPT can help compare destinations, build an itinerary, and create a packing list with everyone participating and following along.

For more hands-on projects, like designing a backyard garden or finding art for a new apartment, create a group chat with your partner or roommates to help collaborate on design ideas, preferences, and styles together. It's also great for group decisions, like finding a restaurant that fits everyone's tastes or settling a friendly debate with an impartial referee.

Group chats also make collaboration at work or school easier. You can draft an outline or research a new topic together. Share articles, notes, and questions, and ChatGPT can help summarize and organize information.

How it works

To start a group chat tap the people icon in the top right corner of any new or existing chat. When you add someone to an existing chat, ChatGPT creates a copy of your conversation as a new group chat so your original conversation stays separate. You can invite others directly by sharing a link with one to twenty people, and anyone in the group can share that link to bring others in. When you join or create your first group chat, you'll be asked to set up a short profile with your name, username, and photo so everyone knows who's in the conversation. Group chats can be found in a new clearly-labeled section of the sidebar for easy access.

Group chats work much like your usual ChatGPT conversations - only now, others can join in. Responses are powered by GPT-5.1 Auto, which chooses the best model to respond with based on the prompt and the models available to the user that ChatGPT is responding to based on their Free, Go, Plus or Pro plan. Search, image and file upload, image generation, and dictation are enabled. Rate limits only apply when ChatGPT responds-not to messages between users in the group chat-and responses from ChatGPT count toward the limit available of the person ChatGPT is responding to. For more details, you can visit the help center⁠(opens in a new window).

We've also taught ChatGPT new social behaviors for group chats. It follows the flow of the conversation and decides when to respond and when to stay quiet based on the context of the group conversation. You can always mention "ChatGPT" in a message when you want it to respond. We've also given ChatGPT the ability to react to messages with emojis, and reference profile photos-so it can, for example, use group members' photos when asked to create fun personalized images within that group conversation.

You can also manage the group settings-tap on the participants' icons to name the group, add or remove people, or mute notifications. You can set custom instructions for how ChatGPT responds in each group chat, whether that's sharing more context or giving specific tone or personality.

Privacy and control by design

Group chats are separate from your private conversations.Your personal ChatGPT memory is not used in group chats, and ChatGPT does not create new memories from these conversations. We're exploring offering more granular controls in the future so you can choose if and how ChatGPT uses memory with group chats.

You're in control. You have to accept an invitation to join a group chat. Everyone can see who's in the chat or leave at any time. Group members can remove other participants with the exception of the group creator, who can only be removed by leaving themselves.

Additional safeguards for younger users.If someone under 18 uses group chats, ChatGPT automatically reduces exposure to sensitive content for everyone in the chat. Parents or guardians can turn group chats off entirely through parental controls⁠(opens in a new window).

What's next

Group chats are just the beginning of ChatGPT becoming a shared space to collaborate and interact with others. As ChatGPT becomes an even better partner in group conversations, it will help you spark ideas, make decisions, and express your creativity with the people who matter most in your life. As we pilot this experience, we'll learn how people use ChatGPT together and will continue refining based on early feedback.

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