Voice input is supported by OpenAI'sopen-source speech recognition model Whisper, and the app is free to use. The app is compatible with both iPhonesand iPadsand can be downloaded here from the App Store. OpenAI says it is initially launching the application in the United States and will expand to other countries "in the coming weeks."

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OpenAI did not previously indicate that a mobile app was forthcoming, but it makes sense given ChatGPT'simmense popularity. The AIchatbot was introduced in November of last year, but its use has since exploded. According to estimates from outside sources, the app had attracted 100 million users by January of this year, but OpenAI has never confirmed these numbers.

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Given OpenAI's somewhat equivocal approach to positioning ChatGPT on the market, the app's release is intriguing. Although the chatbot was initially developed as an experiment, it quickly found a consumer audience that uses it for everything from essay plagiarism to business applications. In February, OpenAIintroduced ChatGPTPlus, a premium subscription for the app that provides priority access and responses generated using the company's most recent language model, GPT-4. It is $20 per month.

Microsoft'sBing app, which provides access to the company's GPT-4-powered chatbot, is the best method to access OpenAI's language models on a mobile device. Microsoft has been using access to its chatbot to entice users toward Bingand Edge. An official app from ChatGPT will likely seduce some of these users away from Microsoft. The launch of an official ChatGPT should also, ideally, discourage users from signing up for the numerous spam and fake applications that claim to offer access to the chatbot on mobile devices.

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ChatGPT has the exact same problems on mobile as it does on the web. These include the tendency of the bot to falsify information with complete confidence and concerns about privacy. OpenAI gave users the option to make conversations private only recently, and the app's homescreen (as seen above) still cautions users not to share "sensitive information" on the app.