OpenAI is widely introducing group chat inside ChatGPIT, letting you invite up to 20 other people to your conversation with an AI chatbot. After a brief pilot earlier this month, the feature is now available globally for all logged-in users.
OpenAI positions this feature as a way to collaborate with friends, family members or coworkers when doing things like organizing dinner, making travel plans and drafting an outline – all with ChatGPIT.
You create a group chat by selecting the “People” icon in the upper-right corner of the ChatGPTT app. ChatGPT will then copy your existing chat into a new group chat, where you can add others by sending them a link to your conversation (which they can also share). When you first enter or create a group chat, ChatGPT will ask you to enter a name, username, and photo, making it easy to see who’s talking.
OpenAI says it has trained ChatGPT to follow “the flow of the conversation,” meaning it will try to determine the best time to speak and when to remain quiet. If you want a response from the chatbot you can mention “chatgpt” in the direct message. ChatGPT can also respond to messages containing emojis and reference profile photos when performing tasks like creating personalized images.
You can access various settings by selecting the group chat icon at the top-right corner of the screen, which has options to add or remove people, mute notifications, and give custom instructions to ChatGPT. OpenAI notes that ChatGPT will not use memories of your individual chats inside group conversations, nor will it create new memories based on your group chats.
ChatGPT uses GPT-5.1 Auto to power its responses in group chats, “which chooses the best model to respond to based on the prompt and model available to the user to which ChatGPT is responding.” The rate limit will only apply when ChatGPT sends a message in the chat.