Chatgpt Just Got Several Work-friendly Updates - What It Can Do Now

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• OpenAI launched a shared projects mode and caller connectors for ChatGPT.
• It besides announced information upgrades for teams utilizing nan chatbot.
• It's portion of a broader strategy to waste AI devices to businesses.

OpenAI has begun rolling retired new squad collaboration and information features for ChatGPT.

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The caller features -- which see a "shared projects" mode, a raft of caller third-party app connectors, and information and compliance updates -- are collectively designed to boost endeavor customers' reliance upon and spot successful nan company's flagship AI chatbot. Here's what's new. 

Shared projects

The caller shared projects mode wrong ChatGPT allows nan chatbot to retrieve nan discourse of a group speech complete time. Individual squad members tin upload documents aliases different files to a shared project, and ChatGPT will propulsion information from those assets to pass nan responses that it generates to early prompts wrong nan chat. 

Shared projects are stored privately and clasp accusation crossed time, making them particularly useful for squad conversations centered connected customer information aliases different delicate subjects and long-running conversations that are taxable to predominant updates. A task creator wrong a squad tin induce colleagues to collaborate via nexus aliases email, likewise to really 1 would induce a workfellow to entree a Google Doc. Teammates tin subordinate successful "chat" aliases "edit" mode.

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The update builds upon Projects, different characteristic for ChatGPT which debuted past twelvemonth arsenic a benignant of integer filing strategy to thief users shape their chats according to taxable aliases project.

"Now you tin stock projects pinch teammates, adding files and instructions together to guideline ChatGPT's responses toward a shared goal," OpenAI wrote successful a blog post. "Members tin chat pinch nan project's discourse to enactment connected nan aforesaid page arsenic caller accusation gets added and create activity that stays accordant successful reside and style."

OpenAI said that early tests pinch nan caller shared projects characteristic showed that teams were utilizing it to enactment updated connected shared documents for illustration proposals and contracts and to support a accordant sound crossed their organization's communications, among different uses. 

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The shared projects characteristic is disposable now done ChatGPT's Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans, and will beryllium soon for Go, Plus, Pro, and Free accounts. 

Connector updates

OpenAI besides announced Thursday that it launched caller connectors to Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, GitHub, Dropbox, and Box, giving ChatGPT nan expertise to propulsion accusation straight from these third-party apps. 

The strategy tin now automatically find which connector to entree without being specifically prompted, and ChatGPT's responses aft a connector hunt are besides now faster and much accurate, according to OpenAI.

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In a little demo video successful nan blog, a personification asks ChatGPT for a summary of updates connected a activity task from their caller emails. The chatbot past pulls accusation from nan user's Gmail relationship and generates a database of nan latest applicable developments, on pinch action items and different info. 

This peculiar update to ChatGPT reflects a broader effort passim nan tech manufacture to move AI assistants into centralized nodes done which customers tin retrieve accusation -- without being directed distant from nan adjunct itself. For example, Anthropic announced a connector update successful July for its Claude chatbot, enabling it to retrieve information from outer apps for illustration Canva and Asana. Earlier that aforesaid month, Zoom's AI Companion was upgraded pinch nan expertise to link to complete a twelve third-party apps.

Tighter security

For its 3rd and last update announced Thursday, OpenAI has integrated caller information protocols for teams utilizing ChatGPT.

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The institution says its chatbot is now certified to ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701 standards, and that its SOC 2 compliance now covers Security, Confidentiality, Availability, and Privacy criteria. 

The admins of Enterprise and Edu accounts tin besides specify which soul squad members tin entree connectors and different features, adding a furniture of information and control. They besides now person entree to an optional IP "allowlisting" characteristic that ensures that ChatGPT will only respond to requests from approved IP addresses. 

"Any petition from an unapproved IP is automatically blocked, moreover if nan personification has valid credentials," OpenAI writes successful its blog post.

A increasing attraction connected businesses

Many AI developers person been aggressively trading to businesses arsenic they activity to commercialize generative AI products. OpenAI is reportedly building a workplace productivity platform to compete straight pinch Google Workplace and Microsoft Office 365, and ChatGPT is now utilized by complete 5 cardinal endeavor customers, according to nan company.

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Anthropic, meanwhile, precocious announced a $183 cardinal valuation -- a gargantuan fig that tin beryllium attributed successful ample portion to nan fame of that company's products among endeavor customers.

Meanwhile, Microsoft and Amazon, successful summation to building their ain in-house models, are betting that they tin become trusted middlemen for businesses looking to bargain AI devices developed by different companies.