ChatGPT Release Notes

An improved Voice interface

An improved Voice interface: the audio you know, with text and visuals when you need them.

We’re making ChatGPT Voice a seamless part of the ChatGPT experience, so you can use voice right inside the chat interface you already use every day—no separate mode required.

Many of you have asked for a more flexible Voice experience—now, you can speak, listen, and see your conversation at the same time. Answers will be spoken alongside streamed text, image search results, widgets (maps, weather, etc.) and more—right in the same chat thread.

This makes voice chats clearer, richer and more contextual by pairing spoken answers with visual context. You can:

• Follow along with typed answers as you listen
• See visual search results like images, charts, and map cards in real time
• Refer back to earlier messages without interrupting the conversation
• Type back when you can’t talk and still get a Voice response
• Share photos to discuss them out loud

This means Voice can better adapt to your day and meet you where you are, whether you're practicing a language and seeing words spelled out, need to refer to a measurement while cooking hands-free, or talking through a chart or code sample where visuals help.

This update is rolling out to all users globally on the ChatGPT mobile app and chatgpt.com. If you prefer the original Voice experience, you can switch back anytime by going to Settings and turning on “Separate mode” under Voice Mode. We’ll continue listening and refining this experience as we build toward Voice interactions that are both integrated and immersive.

Shopping research in ChatGPT

Shopping research is a new interactive experience that helps you find the right products without doing all the research yourself. Describe what you need—like a quiet cordless vacuum for a small apartment, a gift for a four‑year‑old who loves art, or a way to choose between three bikes—and ChatGPT will ask clarifying questions, research deeply across the internet, review quality sources, and build on ChatGPT’s understanding of you from past conversations and memory to return a personalized buyer’s guide with options, tradeoffs, and links to buy.

ChatGPT learns what you like through an interactive interface allowing you to guide the research based on your real-time feedback.

Shopping research is available on ChatGPT Web, iOS, and Android for logged‑in Free, Go, Plus, and Pro users. To help with holiday shopping, we’re making usage nearly unlimited across plans through the season. To learn more, visit the blog.

Group chats in ChatGPT

We’re piloting group chats so you can bring people - and ChatGPT - into the same conversation. Plan trips, make decisions, and collaborate on projects together while ChatGPT helps search, summarize, generate content, and keep everyone on the same page.

Group chats are starting to roll out on ChatGPT Web, iOS, and Android in New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. We’ll use early feedback from this pilot to improve the experience and inform how we expand to more regions and plans over time. To learn more visit the blog.

GPT-5.1 in ChatGPT

We’re updating GPT-5 to GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking, making answers both smarter and more conversational. GPT-5.1 Instant now uses light adaptive reasoning for tougher questions while staying fast, and GPT-5.1 Thinking adapts its thinking time more precisely for complex tasks with clearer, less jargony responses.

GPT-5.1 Auto continues to route each query to the best model, and GPT-5 models remain available for three months under the Legacy models dropdown so you can compare and transition at your own pace.

GPT-5.1 Instant and Thinking are rolling out first to paid (Pro, Plus, Go, Business) users, then to free and logged-out users, with Enterprise and Edu getting a temporary early-access toggle; GPT-5.1 will also be available soon in the API as gpt-5.1-chat-latest (Instant) and gpt-5.1 (Thinking).

India: 12 Months of ChatGPT Go Free

Eligible customers in India can get now get 12 months of ChatGPT Go at no cost. new New users can redeem now on ChatGPT web or the Android app (Google Play). The Apple App Store option arrives next week - no promo code is required for redemption.

Available to users in India who are new, on the free plan, or are current ChatGPT Go subscribers - one redemption per account. Requires a payment method (credit card or UPI).

If you have an existing ChatGPT Go membership, we may be able to automatically add the promotion for you at the end of your current billing cycle - review ChatGPT Go Promotion (India) for more details.