ChatGPT is launching group chats globally for all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, OpenAI announced Thursday. The move comes a week after the company began piloting the feature in some regions, including Japan and New Zealand.
This feature allows users to collaborate with each other and with ChatGPT in one shared conversation. OpenAI says this release transforms ChatGPT from a one-on-one assistant to a space where friends, family, and colleagues can collaborate to plan, create, and make decisions.
The company sees ChatGPT’s group chats as a way for people to coordinate trips, co-author documents, resolve arguments, and work together on research, while ChatGPT helps people search, summarize, and compare options.
Up to 20 people can join a group chat by accepting the invitation. Personal settings and memory are kept private for each user, the company said.
To start a group chat, users must tap the people icon and add participants, either directly or by sharing a link. Everyone will be asked to set up a short profile including their name, username, and photo.
Please note that adding someone to an existing chat creates a new conversation without changing the original chat.
OpenAI says ChatGPT knows when to join in and when to be quiet during a group conversation. Users can tag “ChatGPT” for responses. Additionally, ChatGPT allows you to react to messages with emojis, see profile photos, and more.
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The move marks OpenAI’s latest step in transforming ChatGPT from a simple chatbot to a more social platform. OpenAI says group chat is just the beginning of ChatGPT becoming more than just a single-player experience, but a collaborative environment.
“Over time, we’ll see ChatGPT take a more active role in real-world group conversations, helping people plan, create, and take action together,” the company wrote in an email to TechCrunch.
Thursday’s announcement comes less than two weeks after the launch of GPT-5.1, which features both instant and sinking versions of the model. OpenAI launched a social app called Sora in September that lets users generate videos of themselves and their friends and share them in a TikTok-style algorithmic feed.
