On 13th May 2024, OpenAI conducted their Spring Update live conference in which they announced that they are bringing a Desktop version of ChatGPT to Plus users on Mac.
Highlights:
- OpenAI announces ChatGPT Desktop App on Mac, in their Spring 2024 Update.
- The Desktop ChatGPT App comes with better refreshed UI for natural interaction and real-time code solving capabilities.
- Accessible to ChatGPT Plus users for now and will be rolled out iteratively for free users in the weeks to come.
New chatGPT desktop app!!!
— Nick Dobos (@NickADobos) May 13, 2024
Can see your laptop screen!
One hotkey to copy text pic.twitter.com/FPJdPFjPLn
Almost everyone has been speculating about what OpenAI could launch at the upcoming spring update conference. And now they have made a bombshell announcement that is going to transform the lives of ChatGPT users forever. All these users will soon get an official ChatGPT App.
OpenAI also released their most powerful AI model named GPT4-o (o for omni).
Let’s explore what we know about ChatGPT Desktop so far through this article!
What’s New with ChatGPT Desktop?
The Desktop Version of ChatGPT comes with a far better enhanced and refreshed user interface. All this is designed to give developers enhanced interaction in a more natural way. Now even newbie users who have had trouble before getting used to the platform of ChatGPT will find it easier to work with it for their personal work and projects.
“We know that these models get more and more complex, but we want the experience of interaction to actually become more natural, easy, and for you not to focus on the UI at all, but focus on the collaboration with ChatGPT.”
Mira Mirati, Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, stated in the latest Spring Update Conference 2024.
The Desktop ChatGPT App also fits into your workflow and makes integration much easier. So, you need not worry about the app being compatible with other platforms and accepting your data to perform query operations on them.
One of the most impressive things is that ChatGPT Desktop serves as a highly efficient coding assistant for you in real-time. You can open the code on your desktop screen and ChatGPT will be able to read it in real time as well! You can then talk to the Chatbot about any changes you want to make in the code, starting from debugging, editing, code completion, and much more. You can see how ChatGPT Desktop assists in explaining the code properly by stating what’s going on between the lines of code.
With the GPT-4o/ChatGPT desktop app, you can have a coding buddy (black circle) that talks to you and sees what you see!#openai announcements thread! https://t.co/CpvCkjI0iA pic.twitter.com/Tfh81mBHCv
— Andrew Gao (@itsandrewgao) May 13, 2024
It’s almost like this Desktop app makes ChatGPT appear next to you to assist you with coding problems and provide you with efficient solutions. Just copy the code to GPT and talk it out!
Who can access ChatGPT Desktop?
ChatGPT Desktop will be available to users on Mac. However starting today it will be only available to ChatGPT Plus users. It will be rolled out iteratively for free users with even more developments and some improvements. You can expect much more from the ChatGPT Desktop App in the coming weeks. So stay tuned!
Is it available on Windows?
For now, ChatGPT Desktop is only being released on Mac. It will be released for Windows later this year, so Windows users will have to wait before they can enjoy its powerful capabilities.
Conclusion
ChatGPT Desktop will disrupt the GenAI industry. We already have taken a look into it’s extraordinary capabilities that is going to highly benefit a lot of desktop based Developers. This Application from OpenAI has the potential to help with tedious and heavy workflow which was normally not possible before with the web version of ChatGPT in all devices. GPT-4 is going to a whole new level after this update for sure!
