OpenAI made a big announcement yesterday: ChatGPT is now also availabl phone number librarye on WhatsApp. The WhatsApp version is based on the GPT-4o Mini model. How do you connect the AI tool to WhatsApp and what does it mean for WhatsApp users?
If you add the phone numbe your contacts, you can chat with ChatGPT. My first thought was: huh? Is this a scam or something? But no, it really works! I immediately tried it myself, and there it appeared, among my contacts.ChatGPT between WhatsApp contacts
What features does it already offer?
Something that immediately strikes me: in the web version of ChatGPT what is the added value? you see that the tool is busy ‘typing’. On WhatsApp this is not the case, you just have to wait until the answer is there. I was almost afraid that I was ghosted .
WhatsApp conversation with chatgpt in whatsapp version of chatgpt
As you can see in the screenshot below that message, the WhatsApp version of ChatGPT supports the Dutch language. What does not yet work in the Dutch version is calling. In the United States, you can also call ChatGPT via WhatsApp. There you can ask a question to the AI tool, to which marketing list you hear the answer instead of reading it.
There is a strict rule attached to this, however, because you are only allowed one free fifteen-minute call per month.
Okay, so you can chat and in the US even call, but images and web search are still a bit too far for the WhatsApp version. They are not integrated yet, but OpenAI is working on it, so I expect that will be possible soon enough.you connect.