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In a notable enhancement of its conversational AI platform, ChatGPT now supports group chats featuring the AI alongside multiple people at once. The rollout is available globally across Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans and enables up to 20 participants to interact together with the chatbot.
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How to Use Group Chats
Users create a group by tapping the “people” icon within the app, which copies an existing one-to-one conversation into a new group-chat setting. Invitees join via shareable links, and users must set up a short profile-name, username and photo before participating. The AI is designed to recognise when to respond and when to stay silent. Participants mention “ChatGPT” to prompt it. The model running the chat is GPT‑5.1 Auto, which dynamically selects the optimal model depending on the user’s plan.
Group chats live in a new “Group” section in the sidebar and carry familiar actions such as muting notifications, adding or removing participants and setting custom instructions for how the AI should behave.
Importantly, these chats remain separate from the user’s private conversations: the AI does not use existing memory from one-on-one chats, nor will it store new memory from group conversations at this time.
Who Can Benefit From This Feature
From an application standpoint this feature opens up new use-cases: teams planning an event, families working on shared decisions, students collaborating on projects or coworkers drafting ideas together with an AI facilitator. The move also underscores how the platform is shifting from being a single-user assistant to an interactive group tool.
Overall the update positions ChatGPT as a more collaborative experience, in which the world’s popular AI can play the role of facilitator or contributor in multi-person conversations, not just solo chats.
