OpenAI is piloting a new group-chat feature for ChatGPT, now available in certain regions including Taiwan. Users from Free to Pro tiers are invited to create shared spaces where up to 20 people can interact with the assistant together. Instead of responding to every message, ChatGPT listens for its name and only chimes in when addressed directly.
In these group chats, privacy is carefully managed. Conversations held in a shared room won’t mingle with your personal chat history, keeping your private and group interactions separate. You can customize your profile name, avatar, and notification settings, and also moderate participants—removing people if needed.
To start a chat, you send others an invite link, making it easy to pull together friends, family, or coworkers. Once in the group, you can call on ChatGPT by name to help brainstorm ideas, plan trips, or summarise meeting notes. It becomes a collaborative assistant rather than just one-on-one.
Since the feature is still in testing, there are early restrictions: for instance, if someone under 18 joins, ChatGPT limits how much sensitive content it shares. Still, the potential is clear—AI that joins the conversation on your terms, helping only when asked, in a way that’s both interactive and controlled.
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