OpenAI introduced a brand new characteristic for its synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT on Tuesday. The brand new functionality will permit customers to go looking by way of their chat historical past to rapidly discover related data from previous conversations. This can be a vital enchancment from the present workaround which requires customers to scroll by way of the complete historical past to seek out the specified dialog. Presently, the characteristic is just out there on ChatGPT’s net portal and is being rolled out to the paid subscribers of the platform.

ChatGPT Will get a Chat Historical past Search Function

In a post on X (previously often called Twitter), the official deal with of OpenAI introduced the brand new characteristic. The flexibility to go looking by way of previous chats has been a extremely requested characteristic by customers, as at present, it will get more and more time-consuming to seek out related data.

With the chat historical past search characteristic, customers can now discover a new magnifying glass icon on the facet panel of ChatGPT net, which is positioned on the left facet of the window. Customers can faucet on this icon to open a textual content area the place they’ll kind key phrases particular to discover a previous dialog. The textual content area additionally reveals the current chats to let customers rapidly decide certainly one of them with no need to kind something.

The characteristic is at present being rolled out to ChatGPT Plus and Crew customers. OpenAI additionally highlighted that the Enterprise and Edu subscribers will get entry to the chat historical past search characteristic inside per week. Nevertheless, these on the free tier of the platform must wait until the subsequent month earlier than they see this characteristic.

Notably, these utilizing the Android and that iOS apps of ChatGPT or are on the Home windows or Mac desktop apps won’t get this characteristic in the meanwhile. OpenAI didn’t reveal if the characteristic can even be prolonged to those platforms within the close to future.

OpenAI has been quietly including new options to ChatGPT to maintain it forward of rivals. One other current characteristic added to the online model of the platform is net search functionality. That is totally different from the native functionality of the GPT-4o mannequin, which may scour the Web.

With the search the online characteristic — out there as a globe icon inside the textual content area — the AI solely makes use of web sites to seek out the related data and shows it together with sources for every new piece of knowledge. In performance, that is considerably much like what Perplexity AI affords.