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OpenAI’s ChatGPT app lands on Apple’s iPhones, with Android version coming soon

  • The free software is now available for download to iOS devices through Apple’s US App Store
  • OpenAI plans to offer the app in more countries and expects to roll out the Android version soon

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OpenAI is bringing its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to smartphones for the first time, releasing an iPhone version on Thursday and promising a service for Android devices in the future.
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The software, which is free, is now available in the US for iOS devices through Apple’s App Store. With it, users can type questions and receive responses from the chatbot.

It also includes voice recognition so users will be able to speak their queries, according to a Thursday blog post from the Palo Alto, California-based start-up. The bot will only respond in writing, however. The app also syncs text-based conversations across various devices.

Users who pay for OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus subscription can also use its most powerful large language model, GPT-4, via the app, the company said. OpenAI plans to offer its app in more countries in the coming weeks and expects to roll out the Android version soon.

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Since its release on the web late last year, millions of people have experimented with ChatGPT and other bots – such as Bard, created by Alphabet’s Google. This new wave of chatbots are built atop large language models (LLMs), the AI models trained on huge swathes of internet data so that they can predict and generate humanlike responses to user prompts.

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