Introducing group chats in ChatGPT

Source: OpenAI Date: 2025-11-13 URL: https://openai.com/index/group-chats-in-chatgpt

Summary

Title-only: ChatGPT adds group chat functionality — allowing multiple users to participate in a shared conversation with ChatGPT simultaneously. November 2025 is in the same release cluster as team collaboration features and ChatGPT Pulse, completing a collaborative workspace picture. Group chats enable real-time multi-user AI interaction: teams can query ChatGPT together, share context, and build on each other’s conversations with the same AI model.

Implications

The collaborative AI thread. Group chats transform ChatGPT from a personal assistant into a collaborative tool — more like Slack with an AI participant than a one-on-one conversation. This changes the product category: ChatGPT is now competing with Slack, Teams, and other team communication tools that are adding AI features (Slack AI, Microsoft Copilot in Teams) rather than just AI assistants.

Shared context as enterprise value. Group chats with shared context mean teams can build on each other’s AI interactions rather than starting fresh each time. This is the feature that could make ChatGPT a genuine replacement for some team communication rather than just a productivity add-on — if group conversations persist and can be referenced, they become organizational knowledge artifacts.