ChatGPT

ChatGPT is OpenAI's general purpose AI assistant for chat, coding, images, voice and research, with a permanent free tier and per seat business plans.

ChatGPT is a general purpose AI assistant that answers questions, writes and edits text, works with uploaded files and generates images in one chat window. It is made by OpenAI, the San Francisco research company that launched it and still owns it outright, with no parent company above it. One account covers everything from a permanent free tier to managed seats for a whole organisation. It is OpenAI's consumer and business app, separate from the API platform that developers build on. Conversation is the centre of the product, with a model picker on the composer and a Sources and Tools menu beside it. Search finds answers on the web, Canvas opens a side by side space for writing and code, Create image turns a description into a picture, and Deep research works a topic into a longer written answer. Voice lets a person speak and hear a reply. Projects keep files, instructions and related chats together so answers draw on that material, and Codex takes on coding tasks. Custom instructions fix a standing tone across every chat, and memory carries context between them. ChatGPT is built for people who want one assistant rather than a separate tool for writing, coding, images and research. Students, analysts, marketers, support staff and developers all work in the same app, and organisations add a shared workspace with admin control over data by moving their people onto seats. It is a general assistant for individuals and teams, not an embeddable support widget for a website. Buying is per person: individuals subscribe on one login, and organisations pay per seat with a choice of monthly or annual billing. The jobs it gets hired for cluster around thinking on paper. People draft and rework writing in Canvas, question a PDF or a spreadsheet they have uploaded, and run Deep research to pull an argument together before a decision. Developers hand repetitive work to Codex and read the result in the same thread. Voice covers the moments when talking is faster than typing, such as working through a problem away from a desk. Projects hold one piece of work and its files in a single place, data controls in settings archive or delete conversations, and a full chat history can be exported from OpenAI's privacy portal.