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'Early Version' of ChatGPT Windows App Now Available to Paid Users

OpenAI has announced the release of the ChatGPT Windows desktop app, about five months after the macOS version became available.

Available from Microsoft's app store here, the Windows app supports PCs running Windows 10 (x64 and arm64) version 17763.0 or higher. With it, users can launch a ChatGPT window on their desktops by pressing Alt + Space. From there, they can initiate text conversations, ask it to create images, or share files with it.

The app includes access to OpenAI's latest AI models, including the o1 "reasoning" models currently in preview.

There are some caveats, however. First, the Windows desktop app is only available for those who pay to use ChatGPT via the Plus, Team, Edu, or Enterprise subscriptions. In a message on X, OpenAI said it plans to expand access to "all ChatGPT users" by year's end.

Second, the Windows desktop app is currently an "early version," and therefore not yet feature-complete.

"Please note that a subset of features available in the macOS and web version may not be available on this early version," OpenAI said in its release notes.

Notably absent in this release is Voice Mode, which lets users interact with ChatGPT using spoken natural-language prompts. Users also can't yet link their Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive accounts to the ChatGPT desktop app.

OpenAI said it plans to make those features available in the full release.

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Gladys Rama (@GladysRama3) is the editorial director of Converge360.

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