Samuel Axon
OpenAI’s official ChatGPT app for macOS is now accessible to all customers for the primary time, offered they’re working macOS Sonoma or later.
It was beforehand being rolled out steadily to paid subscribers to ChatGPT’s Plus premium plan.
The ChatGPT Mac app principally acts as a desktop window model of the net app, permitting you to hold on back-and-forth prompt-and-response conversations. You may choose between the GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and GPT-4o fashions. It additionally helps the extra specialised GPTs accessible within the internet model, together with the DALL-E picture generator and customized GPTs.
There’s one vital omission on this desktop app: It would not help utilizing the API. For that, these wanting a desktop app will nonetheless want to make use of a third-party one like Jordi Bruin’s MacGPT.
OpenAI’s app enables you to allow a system-wide keyboard shortcut (choice + house by default) to kind in a immediate any time; it really works a bit like opening a Highlight search in macOS.
It was introduced alongside the GPT-4o mannequin, which is quicker and cheaper to make use of than GPT-4 with comparable (albeit not precisely the identical) accuracy and high quality, and which expands the mannequin’s skill to work together with pictures and movies.
On the identical time it unveiled GPT-4o and the Mac app, OpenAI demonstrated a brand new, conversational method to voice chatting with ChatGPT. That is not but broadly accessible, however it’s stated to be coming quickly. For now, the Mac app helps the previous type of back-and-forth voice chats with the chatbot.
The Mac app is unavailable within the Mac App Retailer, however you’ll be able to obtain it instantly from OpenAI’s web site.
Word that, just like the iPhone or Android ChatGPT app, that is distinct from the ChatGPT integration coming to Apple’s working programs this fall. That integration will see Siri referring customers to ChatGPT (and probably various fashions sooner or later) to reply queries which might be outdoors Siri’s typical scope, and it is going to be baked into the working system.
There’s nonetheless no Home windows app. Why not? No less than one report claimed that OpenAI prioritized a Mac app over a Home windows app “as a result of that is the place most of its customers are.” After all, Home windows customers aren’t hurting for AI chatbot choices, as Microsoft has been throwing ChatGPT-powered Copilot into every thing it could of late.
