Now you can extra simply use ChatGPT in your Mac laptop. OpenAI’s standard AI chatbot is accessible 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 programs for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
On the latter platform, customers can shortly name up ChatGPT through the use of the keyboard mixture of Choice + House after putting in the brand new ChatGPT app.
This makes entry to the AI chatbot one thing that can instantly really feel acquainted to macOS customers who commonly 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 additionally video. (Its multimodal capabilities and skill 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 might be referred to as up with the straightforward keyboard shortcut and customers may additionally take and focus on screenshots immediately within the app. Customers can add recordsdata and different images by way of the macOS app, too, in addition to converse to ChatGPT from their desktop and search by means of their previous conversations.
The app had been slowly rolling out to Mac customers, beginning with Plus subscribers, however right now the corporate introduced in a put up on X that it’s now out there to everybody.
This isn’t OpenAI’s solely integration with Apple gadgets. At WWDC, the businesses introduced a extra expansive deal that may even see Apple clients getting access to ChatGPT from their iPhones and iPads, together with by means of Siri and inside different areas that might be aided by AI, like Writing Instruments. These integrations are additionally powered by GPT-4o and can roll out to Apple clients later this yr with the launch of Apple’s latest working programs.
