IBL News | New York
OpenAI is rolling out the group chats feature globally, allowing people to collaborate with ChatGPT in a single shared conversation. Up to 20 people can participate in a group chat.
The company’s goal is to make ChatGPT more social by turning it into a shared space for collaboration and interaction with others.
Friends, family members, and co-workers can share space to plan, make decisions, or work through ideas and content together. Group chats are separate from private conversations, and users’ personal ChatGPT memory is not shared.
To start a group chat, the user taps the people icon in the top right corner of any new or existing chat. When adding someone to an existing chat, ChatGPT creates a copy of the conversation as a new group chat, keeping the original conversation separate.
Users can invite others by sharing a link with one to twenty people, and anyone in the group can share that link to bring others in.
Responses are powered by GPT‑5.1 Auto. ChatGPT follows the flow of the conversation and decides when to respond and when to stay quiet based on the context of the group conversation.
Search, image, and file upload, image generation, and dictation are enabled.
In September, OpenAI launched a social app called Sora, where users can generate videos of themselves and their friends to share on a TikTok-style algorithmic feed.
