Now you can extra simply use ChatGPT in your Mac laptop. OpenAI’s in style AI chatbot is out there to all macOS customers, the corporate introduced on Tuesday. The app was first introduced forward of Apple’s WWDC 2024 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 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 may instantly really feel acquainted to macOS customers who recurrently 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 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 skill to know 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 could possibly be referred to as up with the easy keyboard shortcut and customers may additionally take and focus on screenshots straight within the app. Customers can add information and different photographs by way of the macOS app, too, in addition to communicate to ChatGPT from their desktop and search by 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 put up 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 also see Apple clients getting access to ChatGPT from their iPhones and iPads, together with by Siri and inside different areas that could possibly be aided by AI, like Writing Instruments. These integrations are additionally powered by GPT-4o and can roll out to Apple clients later this 12 months with the launch of Apple’s latest working methods.