After a successful week-long pilot in select regions including Japan and New Zealand, ChatGPT has now expanded its group chats feature to all users across the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. OpenAI confirmed the global rollout of group chats on November 20, marking the feature’s rapid transition from limited testing to worldwide availability.
OpenAI said that early feedback from the pilot was encouraging, prompting the company to expand group chats to all logged-in users on the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans worldwide over the coming days. The company added that it will continue improving the experience as more users adopt the feature.
The feature allows multiple users to participate in shared conversations with one another and ChatGPT. According to OpenAI, this update shifts ChatGPT from being a personal assistant to a collaborative space where friends, families, and teams can plan, brainstorm, create, and make decisions together.
OpenAI sees group chats as a way for people to organise trips, co-write documents, settle disagreements, or work together on research. Throughout these conversations, ChatGPT helps by searching, summarising information, and comparing options to support collaborative decision-making.
Users can invite between one and 20 participants by sharing a link, which anyone in the group can forward. When starting a group chat for the first time, users must create a brief profile that includes their name, username, and photo. All active group chats are conveniently located in a dedicated section of the sidebar for easy access.
Group chat responses are powered by GPT-5.1 Auto, which automatically selects the most suitable model based on each user’s plan. Users can access features such as search, image uploads, image generation, and voice dictation within group conversations. Rate limits apply only to ChatGPT’s responses not to user messages and each response counts toward the allowance of the user who receives it.
OpenAI clarified that group chats are kept separate from private conversations. ChatGPT does not access a user’s personal memory in group chats, nor does it create new memories from them. The company added that it is exploring more granular controls in the future, allowing users to decide if and how memory should be used within group chats.
