ChatGPT’s Mac app is here, but its advanced and seductive voice mode has been delayed

Now, OpenAI says it will “need another month to reach our limit and roll out” an alpha version of the new voice mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus subscribers, with plans to allow access to all Plus customers in the fall . One specific area that OpenAI claims to be improving is the ability to “detect and reject certain content.”

As for the new video and screen sharing features we saw during the event, OpenAI writes that they will “keep you posted” on a timeline. OpenAI said it would deliver the new features “in the coming weeks.” Now, the company writes that “exact deadlines depend on meeting our high security and reliability standards.”

The assistant bears a troubling resemblance to Johansson’s virtual character in the film Her were part of the OpenAI demo, showing how the GPT-4o-powered bot could observe the world around the user and respond to it in real time. It could also hold a conversation much more naturally and tolerate interruptions with what CEO Sam Altman called “human-level response times and expressiveness.”

The desktop app, however, released today for macOS users. With the Mac app installed, pressing Option and Space together can open ChatGPT from anywhere, allowing you to chat about whatever is currently on your screen. A Windows app is expected to arrive later this year.