On Thursday, OpenAI released an early Home windows model of its first ChatGPT app for Home windows, following a Mac version that launched in May. Presently, it is solely accessible to subscribers of Plus, Group, Enterprise, and Edu variations of ChatGPT, and customers can download it totally free 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 carry the complete 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.)
A screenshot of the brand new Home windows ChatGPT app captured on October 18, 2024.
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Benj Edwards
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 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 will probably generate photographs utilizing DALL-E 3 or analyze uploaded recordsdata and pictures.
In case you’re working Home windows 11, you possibly can 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 after we tried). That could possibly be helpful for asking ChatGPT a fast query at any time.
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Benj Edwards
A screenshot of the brand new Home windows ChatGPT app itemizing within the Microsoft Retailer captured on October 18, 2024.
Credit score:
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 traditional, chat like anyone’s watching, and do not depend on ChatGPT as a factual reference for essential selections—GPT-4o particularly 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.”
