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OpenAI just launched something pretty cool. It’s called ChatGPT Group Chats, and it lets your whole team talk to ChatGPT in one place at the same time.
Here’s the problem it solves. Right now, when you use ChatGPT at work, you do it alone. You ask it something, copy the answer, and paste it into Slack. Then your coworker does the same thing separately. Now you have two different answers from ChatGPT, and nobody knows which one to use. It gets confusing fast.
Group Chats fixes this mess.
Setting It Up Takes 30 Seconds
You click a button in ChatGPT that looks like a people icon. It gives you a link. You share that link with your team. Done. Up to 20 people can join and everyone sees the same chat.
The cool part is how ChatGPT acts in groups. It doesn’t jump in after every message. It stays quiet and watches your team talk. Then it speaks up when it actually has something helpful to add. If you need it right away, just type “ChatGPT” in your message.
The system uses something called GPT-5.1 Auto. That just means it thinks harder for tough questions and answers quickly for simple stuff.
Teams Are Saving Real Time
People testing this feature say they’re finishing work 40% faster. Marketing teams are planning whole campaigns in one hour instead of having three meetings over five days. Developers are fixing bugs in 25 minutes instead of spending hours going back and forth.
Everything stays in one conversation. Your team can leave and come back days later. ChatGPT remembers what you were working on. You don’t have to explain your project all over again.
You can also upload files right into the chat. Need an image? ChatGPT can make one. Want different styles for different projects? You can set that up too.
There’s One Big Catch
Right now, only four countries can use this. Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. If you live anywhere else, you have to wait. OpenAI hasn’t said when it’s coming to other places.
But for teams who can use it now, this is changing how they work. ChatGPT isn’t just one person’s helper anymore. It’s helping the whole team stay on the same page and move faster together.
