ChatGPT rolls out group chats

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ChatGPT is officially getting group chats, and yes, it’s basically crashing your group project like the overhelpful kid who actually did the reading.

OpenAI announced that group chats are rolling out globally to everyone, Free, Go, Plus, and Pro users alike, just a week after quietly testing the feature in places like Japan and New Zealand. 

Think of it as turning ChatGPT from your personal homework buddy into the group Slack channel that never sleeps or eats lunch.

The idea is pretty simple: you can now invite up to 20 people into a shared conversation with ChatGPT. 

Friends, family, coworkers, your D&D party, that one guy who always derails the plan, everyone gets a seat at the digital table. 

You and your crew can use it to plan trips, co-write docs, argue about where to eat, or go full chaos mode while ChatGPT tries to mediate like a calm HR rep with infinite patience.

OpenAI is pitching this as a big shift from “ChatGPT helps you” to “ChatGPT helps everyone in your messy group chat.” 

It’ll jump in when it’s needed and stay quiet when it’s not, kind of like that one friend who only talks when there’s actual drama. 

If you want its attention, though, you can just tag it like @ChatGPT, and boom, it’s back in the game. 

Yes, it can also react with emojis. No, it probably won’t side with you in the argument (but you can try).

Setting up a group chat is straightforward: tap the people icon, add participants directly or via a link, and everyone makes a short profile with a name, username, and photo. 

Importantly, your personal settings and memory stay private, so ChatGPT isn’t snitching about your weird late-night prompts from last week. 

Also, adding someone to an existing chat doesn’t mess up the old one. It just spins up a new conversation, like a respectful clone of your original chaos.

OpenAI says this is all part of a bigger plan to make ChatGPT less of a solo sidekick and more of a collaborative hangout space. 

Basically, it wants to be your group’s shared brain, the one that actually remembers who said what and can summarize your 400-message argument in three bullet points.

This news drops less than two weeks after the company launched GPT-5.1 and a few months after releasing Sora, its TikTok-esque social video app where you can generate AI videos of yourself and your friends.