ChatGPT now has an official iPhone app

OpenAI has launched a free ChatGPT app for iOS. It’s the primary official smartphone app for the viral language mannequin, becoming a member of a crowded discipline of third-party cellular AI software program vying on your consideration — a lot of which faucet into the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 APIs powering ChatGPT. It’s solely out there within the US for now, however the firm says it should broaden to further international locations “within the coming weeks.”

Function-wise, OpenAI’s app seems to be and behaves very like the ChatGPT web site — with the addition of voice enter utilizing OpenAI’s Whisper speech recognition. It additionally permits switching between normal and GPT-4 language fashions for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, in addition to dialog historical past (synced from the desktop in case you register with the identical account) and the flexibility to export knowledge and delete or rename conversations. Nonetheless, the corporate’s not too long ago launched plugins, together with reside internet entry, are absent.

OpenAI suggests Android customers received’t be left at midnight for lengthy, as the corporate guarantees, “You’re subsequent!” As well as, the App Retailer model is at the moment made for iPhone solely, so iPad customers have to both persist with the ChatGPT web site or use the iOS app awkwardly upscaled to pill measurement.

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