Use Free Chatgpt? You Just Got A Powerful Projects Upgrade Once Exclusive To Paid Users

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• ChatGPT Free tin now entree Projects.
  
• Allows users to enactment much organized, serving arsenic a hub for content.
• Updates besides see larger record uploads, representation controls, more.

Since its fame exploded, ChatGPT has undergone galore upgrades, including a sleek UI redesign. However, 1 terribly pesky point that has remained nan aforesaid for free users is really chats are organized, automatically populating nan left-hand barroom pinch nary existent statement options -- until now.

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During its 12 Days of OpenAI vacation campaign, nan institution launched a Projects feature, which helps users shape and customize their chats successful ChatGPT. However, astatine nan time, nan characteristic was only disposable to Plus, Pro, and Teams users, pinch nan institution claiming it was coming to free users arsenic soon arsenic possible. 

(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's genitor company, revenge an April 2025 suit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights successful training and operating its AI systems.)

Nine months later, that time has arrived, pinch Projects being rolled retired to free users starting today.

How Projects work

Each Project serves arsenic a hub, aliases arsenic OpenAI calls it, "a smart workspace" for your chats and nan contented you want nan chat to reference. When creating a Project, you tin see a title, a customized files color, applicable task files, and civilization instructions for ChatGPT connected really it tin champion thief you pinch nan task successful 1 place.

So, for example, if you are a student, you could commencement a reddish files named "Intro to Machine Learning," upload your notes, PDFs, PowerPoint, and different people materials, instruct it to reply each mobility you input successful nan workspace arsenic if it were a tutor, and past inquire away. It tin past reply your questions utilizing your discourse successful a regular chat format. 

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You tin besides adhd erstwhile chats from nan sidebar to your Project. The chats tin beryllium saved successful nan Project, making it easier to prime up your conversations later and cognize precisely what to look for where.

Beyond becoming disposable to free users, Projects besides sewage immoderate different adjuvant updates, including larger record uploads per project, nan expertise to prime colors and icons for a clearer distinction, and project-only representation controls. The record upload limits alteration per nan scheme you have, pinch up to 5 for Free users, 25 for Plus, and 40 for Pro, Business, and Enterprise accounts.

How to entree Projects

OpenAI shares that nan update is unrecorded connected nan web and Android and will rotation retired to iOS users complete nan coming days. Of course, each nan users who could antecedently entree it will proceed to beryllium capable to do so. 

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To motorboat nan feature, conscionable click connected "Projects" connected apical of nan chat history connected nan left-hand barroom and you should beryllium set.