OpenAI has launched an iOS app for ChatGPT, promising that an Android model is coming “quickly.” The app is free to make use of, syncs chat historical past with the net, and options voice enter, supported by OpenAI’s open-source speech recognition mannequin Whisper. The app works on each iPhones and iPads and will be downloaded from the App Retailer right here. OpenAI says it’s rolling out the app within the US first and can increase to different international locations “within the coming weeks.”
OpenAI didn’t beforehand trace {that a} cellular app was coming, nevertheless it is sensible given the unimaginable recognition of ChatGPT. The AI chatbot launched final November however rocketed in use. Some outdoors estimates counsel the app attracted 100 million customers by January this 12 months, although OpenAI has by no means confirmed these figures.
The app’s launch is attention-grabbing, contemplating OpenAI’s considerably ambivalent strategy to positioning ChatGPT available in the market. Though the chatbot launched as an experiment, it quickly discovered a shopper viewers who use the bot for the whole lot from dishonest on school essays to enterprise purposes. In February, OpenAI launched a premium subscription for the app, ChatGPT Plus, which presents precedence entry and responses generated utilizing the corporate’s newest language mannequin, GPT-4. It prices $20 a month.
To this point, one of the best ways to entry OpenAI’s language fashions on cellular has been to make use of Microsoft’s Bing app, which presents entry to the corporate’s GPT-4-powered chatbot. An official app from ChatGPT will doubtless entice a few of these customers away from Microsoft, which has been utilizing entry to its chatbot as a method to lure folks towards Bing and Edge. The launch of an official ChatGPT also needs to, hopefully, cease folks from signing up for the numerous spam and faux apps that purport to supply entry to the chatbot on cellular.
After all, ChatGPT has the identical points on cellular because it does on the net. These embody the bot’s tendency to manufacture info with full confidence, and privateness fears. OpenAI solely just lately gave customers the choice to make conversations personal, and the app’s homescreen (as seen above) nonetheless warns customers to not share “delicate information” on the app.
