On Thursday, OpenAI launched an early Home windows model of its first ChatGPT app for Home windows, following a Mac model that launched in Could. At present, it is solely out there to subscribers of Plus, Staff, Enterprise, and Edu variations of ChatGPT, and customers can obtain it without cost within the Microsoft Retailer for Home windows.
OpenAI is positioning the discharge as a beta take a look at. “That is an early model, and we plan to convey the total expertise to all customers later this 12 months,” OpenAI writes on the Microsoft Retailer entry for the app. (Curiously, 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 principally equivalent to the online browser model of ChatGPT. You may at the moment 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 actually generate pictures utilizing DALL-E 3 or analyze uploaded recordsdata and pictures.
In case you’re working Home windows 11, you’ll be able to immediately name up a small ChatGPT window when the app is open utilizing an Alt+House shortcut (it didn’t work in Home windows 10 once we tried). That may very well be helpful 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 identical 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 normal, chat like someone’s watching, and do not depend on ChatGPT as a factual reference for vital choices—GPT-4o particularly is nice at telling you what you need to hear, whether or not it is appropriate or not. As OpenAI says in a small disclaimer on the backside of the app window: “ChatGPT could make errors.”
