OpenAI pilots group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan, letting up to 20 users create profiles and prompt ChatGPT in a shared space
Collaborate with others, and ChatGPT, in the same conversation. — Try in ChatGPT(opens in a new window)
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Context & Ripple Effects
OpenAI had already broadened ChatGPT from a single-user assistant toward a workspace: ChatGPT Team introduced a paid collaborative plan, and apps were later piloted inside the chat interface. This regional test takes that direction into the conversation itself, rather than reserving collaboration for a separate team product.
Users in the four pilot markets can bring up to 20 participants into one ChatGPT thread, with profiles and shared prompting changing the product from a private exchange into a common workspace.
OpenAI gains a live test of how identity, participation, and model responses work when several people share the same conversational context.
Second-order effects
The feature creates a lower-friction collaborative option alongside ChatGPT Team, potentially widening shared use beyond organizations willing to start with a dedicated team subscription.
As ChatGPT also adds apps inside conversations, shared chats can become a distribution surface where groups jointly invoke third-party services rather than passing results between separate tools.
Third-order effects
If shared conversations become a durable behavior, the competitive boundary shifts from the quality of an individual AI reply toward ownership of the collaborative context where people, assistants, and services meet.
That shift would reinforce AI workspace consolidation: product teams will need to balance social collaboration with clearer controls over participant identity, shared context, and access.
The trend: ChatGPT is evolving from a personal prompt interface into a collaborative operating layer that combines people, AI, and embedded services in one workspace.
The key will be if people actually shift conversations over to ChatGPT instead of just using this to share research / a digest I could see this working well for anything recurring and topic-based, or trips etc that require a lot of planning and coordination
OpenAI will be WeChat for the rest of the world. WeChat isn't just an app. It's the closest thing the world has to a digital operating system: •1.3B+ monthly users •~70% of China's population uses it daily •>3 hours/day average time spent •>1B payments processed per day
group chats with an embedded agent is literally the one thing meta should've owned by default. they have the social graph, the distribution, the group chats, the whole damn fucking pie. this feature is straight out of viral growth handbook 101. & it's a viral loop without
Group chats feels like a big step forward - and a big push into AI x social for ChatGPT The prior way to share links to chats was fairly clunky and not super collaborative (Web link where the receiver could view the convo history, but not join the conversation with the sender)
very excited to kick off our group chats pilot today. feel free to tag or DM me for feedback! almost a year ago i built the first multiplayer chatgpt prototype. we thought it was a wild, out-of-distribution idea, but the model kept surprising us every step of the way. our models
“HELP ME” vs “SEE ME.” OpenAI's new Group Chats pilot made me think again about what layer of emotion great products really address. The movie Inception left a mark on me - I always try to find the deepest layer of emotion a product speaks to. 👶 Products for parents + kids:
Rolling out now to Free, Go, Plus, and Pro users in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan on both mobile and web. Make sure you're on the latest iOS or Android app. https://openai.com/...
My favorite part: in group chats, ChatGPT understands group dynamics, knowing when to respond (or stay quiet), can react to messages with emojis, and can reference profile photos when generating images. Group chats are private by default: personal memory is never used, joining
I knew Sam's endgame for ChatGPT was an everything app. Social is just phase one. Expect ads, a productivity suite to rival Google's docs/slides/photos, payments, and full-stack communication ( text, voice, and video). [image]
Group chats in ChatGPT are now piloting in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. A new way to collaborate with friends, family, or coworkers and ChatGPT in the same conversation. [image]
AI experiences today are 1:1 between a human and an LLM. Meta has embedded MetaAI on WhatsApp, but it's not useful. What OpenAI is doing is not useful either, but it will give them the lessons they need to bring it to productivity apps. That's where the true value is. [embedd…