Now you can extra simply use ChatGPT in your Mac pc. OpenAI’s common AI chatbot is on the market to all macOS customers, the corporate introduced on Tuesday. The app was first introduced forward of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Convention (WWDC) in June, the place the businesses collectively introduced integrations between OpenAI’s chatbot and Apple’s working methods for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
On the latter platform, customers can shortly name up ChatGPT by utilizing the keyboard mixture of Possibility + House after putting in the brand new ChatGPT app.
This makes entry to the AI chatbot one thing that may instantly really feel acquainted to macOS customers who usually use different keyboard shortcuts like Command + House to pop up a search bar to entry Highlight Search. However as a substitute of extra conventional search, they’ll have entry to a wider world of information, just one button away. As soon as launched, ChatGPT seems as a chat interface overlaid on prime of the display screen.
OpenAI’s launch of the macOS app was a bit overshadowed on the time of the unique announcement because it arrived alongside GPT-4o, its flagship generative AI mannequin that guarantees extra superior intelligence, together with the flexibility to deal with not solely textual content and speech but in addition video. (Its multimodal capabilities and talent to grasp media give the AI mannequin its identify — the “o” stands for “omni.”)
ChatGPT’s desktop app was introduced in the identical press launch, as a brand new app for each free and paid customers. The corporate famous on the time that it could possibly be known as up with the straightforward keyboard shortcut and customers may additionally take and focus on screenshots straight within the app. Customers can add recordsdata and different pictures by way of the macOS app, too, in addition to converse to ChatGPT from their desktop and search by their previous conversations.
The app had been slowly rolling out to Mac customers, beginning with Plus subscribers, however at present the corporate introduced in a publish on X that it’s now obtainable to everybody.
This isn’t OpenAI’s solely integration with Apple units. At WWDC, the businesses introduced a extra expansive deal that may also see Apple clients having access to ChatGPT from their iPhones and iPads, together with by Siri and inside different areas that could possibly be aided by AI, like Writing Instruments. These integrations are additionally powered by GPT-4o and can roll out to Apple clients later this 12 months with the launch of Apple’s latest working methods.
