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OpenAI releases ChatGPT on your desktop for macOS

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The product works pretty well and already feels more natural to use than the web UI of ChatGPT.

This landing page is a bit barebones for my taste though. I would've loved to know about what data gets locally processed, privacy assurance, and what gets sent to OpenAI. A lot of bad things can be implied from the two three sentences like: "Chat about email, screenshots, files, and anything on your screen."

Can and should.

You could just wait for the next macos for this exact functionality but you get to control what openAI sees.

Seems a little opportunistic. Trying to get ahead of the Apple Intelligence launch and capture some market share (and data) before the door closes and they wind up trapped as a feature within apple’s walled AI garden?

Cynically, a nonzero number of people will probably download and install this thinking it’s the way you install the OpenAI collaboration Apple announced recently…

Well it's quite a lot ahead of Apple intelligence if you're not in the US. In Europe it probably won't even come this year. So it's not a bad thing they're releasing this.

I won't use it as I moved away from Mac and I have a local AI server now. But for many this will be super handy

> Trying to get ahead of the Apple Intelligence launch

They did announce the apps a few weeks before WWDC though. Initially it was only available to paying users.

The app is… fine I guess. I would have preferred a web view because this is just the web app with less features. Unlike the browser, this native app isn’t easily extended / customized.

If native app means I get an uglier ui with less features that I can’t easily hack on, why would I ever want that?

I will never understand the glorification of native apps.

So what is new now? I remember this was available right after the ChatGPT4o livestream and I downloaded it then.

It was available initially for select paying users then rolled out to presumably all paying users, and this new announcement is that it's available for in general all users.

Hopefully it is native application rather than another Webview or Electron-based. There are already good ones.

It is a native app, and even lives in your menu bar for some reason

Too late. The market is already moving towards a chat GUI that can integrate with many models and API's. Strange how OpenAI was so slow on this.

Which one are you talking about?

Not OP, but I have been using LibreChat until now. However, now that I see some of Anthropic's "artifacts" capabilities, I may start using their web UI a lot more.

What market would that be? Consumer use of a mildly helpful text constructor? Most people only have at-best a cursory sense of what a model is or what ChatGPT does, and aren't swapping APIs or whatever. Even among technical people I'd wager it's only a tiny minority of people who are doing anything like that.

This explains the Multi acquisition.

Sonoma-only, unfortunately.

Not on Intel Macs

This is wild. Why exactly does an app that is a thin wrapper over some APIs require Apple silicon?

The task to create a build for intel macs and a page to decide which file to download probably just didn’t get prioritized in the scrum meeting.

It's really bad though with OpenAI. I don't log in to Google play on my android phone and their login process in their app is completely broken. It constantly opens Google play without even asking (without me pressing the button for it). And won't let me go back to the app and press the login with email button. They really don't care about the 1%.

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