On Thursday, OpenAI launched an early Home windows model of its first ChatGPT app for Home windows, following a Mac model that launched in Might. At the moment, it is solely accessible to subscribers of Plus, Staff, Enterprise, and Edu variations of ChatGPT, and customers can obtain it without spending a dime within the Microsoft Retailer for Home windows.
OpenAI is positioning the discharge as a beta check. “That is an early model, and we plan to deliver the total expertise to all customers later this yr,” OpenAI writes on the Microsoft Retailer entry for the app. (Apparently, ChatGPT exhibits up as being rated “T for Teen” by the ESRB within the Home windows retailer, regardless of not being a online game.)
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A screenshot of the brand new Home windows ChatGPT app captured on October 18, 2024.
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Upon opening the app, OpenAI requires customers to log right into a paying ChatGPT account, and from there, the app is mainly similar to the online browser model of ChatGPT. You may at present use it to entry a number of fashions: GPT-4o, GPT-4o with Canvas, 01-preview, 01-mini, GPT-4o mini, and GPT-4. Additionally, it could possibly generate photographs utilizing DALL-E 3 or analyze uploaded recordsdata and pictures.
Should you’re operating Home windows 11, you may immediately name up a small ChatGPT window when the app is open utilizing an Alt+Area shortcut (it didn’t work in Home windows 10 after we tried). That could possibly be useful for asking ChatGPT a fast query at any time.
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A screenshot of the brand new Home windows ChatGPT app itemizing within the Microsoft Retailer captured on October 18, 2024.
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Benj Edwards
And similar to the online model, all of the AI processing takes place within the cloud on OpenAI’s servers, which implies an Web connection is required.
In order typical, chat like any person’s watching, and do not depend on ChatGPT as a factual reference for vital choices—GPT-4o specifically is nice at telling you what you need to hear, whether or not it is right or not. As OpenAI says in a small disclaimer on the backside of the app window: “ChatGPT could make errors.”
