Now you can extra simply use ChatGPT in your Mac pc. OpenAI’s fashionable 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 repeatedly use different keyboard shortcuts like Command + House to pop up a search bar to entry Highlight Search. However as an alternative of extra conventional search, they’ll have entry to a wider world of data, just one button away. As soon as launched, ChatGPT seems as a chat interface overlaid on high 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 know media give the AI mannequin its title — the “o” stands for “omni.”)
ChatGPT’s desktop app was introduced within the same press release, as a brand new app for each free and paid customers. The corporate famous on the time that it might be known as up with the easy keyboard shortcut and customers may additionally take and talk about screenshots instantly 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 at the moment the corporate introduced in a post on X that it’s now out there to everybody.
This isn’t OpenAI’s solely integration with Apple units. At WWDC, the businesses introduced a extra expansive deal that may even see Apple prospects having 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 prospects later this 12 months with the launch of Apple’s latest working methods.
