ChatGPT Is Testing Group Conversations, But You Can’t Access Them Yet

Last updated: 2025/11/14 at 7:08 AM

News Room Published 14 November 2025

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You may soon have a new way to chat to your friends, family, or coworkers. ChatGPT group conversations are in development for you to talk to people, and then easily call on an AI to help you research without moving to another tool.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced on Thursday it’s beginning tests on its new collaboration tool. Group chats on ChatGPT will allow up to 20 members, and users will need to set up a profile before joining. That includes sharing a name, username, and a profile picture.

ChatGPT will contribute to the conversation with its latest GPT-5.1 Auto tech, which means it will know which models to switch between based on the prompts provided. OpenAI says, “It follows the flow of the conversation and decides when to respond and when to stay quiet based on the context of the group conversation.”

Messages to other members of the conversation are free, but you’ll use credits when you ask ChatGPT directly for a response. It’ll take credits from the person who asks the query, rather than everyone in the chat.

ChatGPT will use the models available to each group chat member, which is dependent on whether they’re a free user, or a Go, Plus or Pro subscriber.

OpenAI says, “We’ve also given ChatGPT the ability to react to messages with emojis, and reference profile photos—so it can, for example, use group members’ photos when asked to create fun personalized images within that group conversation.”

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Your history with ChatGPT won’t be called upon for responses in these conversations, and OpenAI says responses in group chats won’t influence its memory in your private conversations. The brand says it’s also exploring more granular controls around memories in group chats.

Users under 18 can be added into group chats, but it will remove all sensitive content from those conversations as part of the brand’s expanded safeguards. Those with parental controls can turn off group chats entirely for younger users.

Early testing is exclusive to logged-in users in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. OpenAI says it intends to learn from early feedback before expanding to other regions.