ChatGPT group chats turn the product from a one‑on‑one assistant into a shared workspace where up to 20 people and the model collaborate in a single conversation. The feature lives inside the existing ChatGPT interface and is available to both free and paid users who are logged in.
From solo assistant to shared space
ChatGPT now supports native group chats, so multiple people can talk with each other and with the AI in the same thread rather than maintaining separate, parallel conversations. In these rooms, the model follows the ongoing discussion, responds to the whole group, and keeps track of context as different participants contribute.
What changes in the interface
Group chats sit alongside your existing conversations, using the same layout you already know. To start one, you open a new or existing chat, tap the group icon in the top-right corner, create a room, and share an invite link with others. Before joining, each participant enters a brief profile so the AI can address people by name and maintain continuity across long threads.
How group chats behave
Each room can host up to 20 participants, and everyone’s messages — including the model’s — appear in a single shared timeline the AI can see. This gives the model a similar view of the conversation as the group itself, and keeps these rooms organized in a dedicated area of the sidebar, separate from your private one‑to‑one chats. The feature is available globally to logged‑in users on both the free and premium tiers, making collaborative AI access possible for everything from study groups to community projects.
Using ChatGPT as a collective partner
In a product sprint, one teammate might paste user feedback while another drops in a draft spec, and ChatGPT can surface key themes, suggest requirements, and highlight open questions or missing information. For friends planning a trip, it can compare itineraries, point out conflicts, and help refine plans. Because the model can see the full thread, it can reconcile different perspectives, reference earlier messages, and generate group‑ready outputs such as bullet‑point summaries, decision logs, or code snippets, while late arrivals can scroll back or ask for a quick recap.
Fewer silos, more continuous threads
Group rooms reduce the need for scattered “prompt silos” where each person experiments in a separate chat. Instead, a single shared conversation becomes the evolving record of a project — a place where sketches, drafts, and decisions accumulate in one timeline. This makes the chat itself a living document of how work and ideas develop over time.
Why this matters for collaboration
By integrating group conversations, ChatGPT moves closer to everyday messaging and collaboration tools. It will not immediately replace Slack, WhatsApp, or Teams, but it does bring human discussion and AI assistance onto the same screen, echoing a broader shift where workplace software embeds generative AI directly into shared workflows. With a large existing user base, even incremental features like this instantly reach many students, knowledge workers, and communities who stand to benefit from collaborative prompting.
Real-world messaging habits
The design matches how people already work, since users often paste AI outputs into group chats to debate, refine, or verify information. Bringing the model directly into the room removes copy‑paste friction and ensures everyone sees the same prompts and responses, which can reduce misunderstandings and duplicated work.
Privacy, safety, and limits
Everything you type in a group room is visible to everyone in that room and persists in the conversation history. Standard account controls still apply: individuals can manage whether their chats contribute to training, and enterprise offerings typically exclude customer data from training by default. The 20‑person cap helps keep rooms manageable, and the AI remains bound by the platform’s safety and accuracy rules, so sensitive projects still require human validation and, ideally, accounts configured for compliant data governance.
What might come next
The feature is likely to evolve quickly, with potential additions such as pinning shared agendas, assigning tasks, or exporting summaries directly from a room. Deeper integrations with voice and live search could eventually let ChatGPT schedule meetings or pull real‑time information without leaving the chat. For everyday users, the core shift is straightforward: ChatGPT can now participate in real group conversations, and inviting people into the chat often changes both the feel of the interaction and how much progress a group can make with AI in the loop.
