On July 21, OpenAI announced plans to launch the Android version of its popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) software, ChatGPT, within the next week. The launch follows the May launch for iOS users.
The company announced the launch in a tweet and launched a pre-order page on the Google Play Store, where users can sign up to install the app once it’s ready.
This announcement follows OpenAI’s recent efforts to improve the integrity and transparency of its tools through initiatives such as watermarking content. The company has come under scrutiny for concerns about artificial intelligence misinformation.
Announcing ChatGPT for Android! The app will be released to users next week and is available for pre-order on the Google Play Store starting today: https://t.co/NfBDYZR5GI
– OpenAI July 21, 2023
OpenAI features improved security measures for Android apps compared to the web version. It also offers features like cross-device syncing of chat history like the iOS version.
Offering Android and iOS apps, OpenAI competes directly with Microsoft’s Bing Chat, which also uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology. Apps are an alternative way to test large language models (LLM) without relying on a web browser.
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The release coincides with the launch of Google’s Bird chatbot in the European Union and Brazil. Other competitors are also appearing, such as with Anthropic’s Assistant Cloud 2, which offers functionality beyond OpenAI’s paid version of ChatGPT. ChatGPT experienced a drop in traffic in June — the first since its launch.
ChatGPT and other AI-powered chatbots have been widely adopted by the crypto community, and some are using the technology to develop new codes.
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