ChatGPT allows users to upload directly from Google Drive and OneDrive

A note from OpenAI says that you may no longer need to download files you have on Google Drive or OneDrive if you want to use ChatGPT to analyze your data. You will be able to add these files directly to the chatbot. The feature, which will roll out to paying ChatGPT users in the coming weeks, will save people the hassle of having to first download a file and then upload it to the chatbot again.

Once they have access to the feature, ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, and Teams users will simply need to grant the chatbot access to their Google Drive or OneDrive account. OpenAI says in a blog post that the integration means ChatGPT can read Excel, Word, PowerPoint and their Google equivalents “faster”. So far, the enhanced data analysis capabilities are only available through GPT-4o, the faster and improved version of GPT-4 that powers the paid version of the chatbot.

OpenAI has also improved ChatGPT’s ability to understand datasets from instructions written in natural language. Users can ask the chatbot to run Python code for analysis, merge or clean data sets, and create charts from information in files.

ChatGPT was able to create charts if requested, but now the chatbot allows people to interact with the tables and charts it creates, expand the table view, and customize the data view – for example, changing colors or asking additional questions in the cells. ChatGPT currently supports bar, line, pie, and scatter charts for interactive visualizations and will generate static versions for chart types that it does not yet support.

OpenAI reiterates in the blog post that it will not train AI models from data uploaded by ChatGPT Enterprise and Teams users, and ChatGPT Plus subscribers can opt out of training.