Free ChatGPT users just got a powerful Project upgrade to better organize their chats

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• ChatGPT Free tin present entree Projects.
  
• Allows users to enactment much organized, serving arsenic a hub for content.
• Updates besides see larger record uploads, representation controls, and more.

Since its popularity exploded, ChatGPT has undergone galore upgrades, including a sleek UI redesign. However, 1 terribly pesky happening that has remained the aforesaid for escaped users is however chats are organized, automatically populating the left-hand barroom with nary existent enactment options -- until now.

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During its 12 Days of OpenAI vacation campaign, the institution launched a Projects feature, which helps users signifier and customize their chats successful ChatGPT. However, astatine the time, the diagnostic was lone disposable to Plus, Pro, and Teams users, with the institution claiming it was coming to escaped users arsenic soon arsenic possible. 

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Nine months later, that time has arrived, with Projects being rolled retired to escaped users starting today.

How Projects work

Each Project serves arsenic a hub, oregon arsenic OpenAI calls it, "a astute workspace" for your chats and the contented you privation the chat to reference. When creating a Project, you tin see a title, a customized folder color, applicable task files, and customized instructions for ChatGPT connected however it tin champion assistance you with the task successful 1 place.

So, for example, if you are a student, you could commencement a reddish folder named "Intro to Machine Learning," upload your notes, PDFs, PowerPoint, and different people materials, instruct it to reply each question you input successful the workspace arsenic if it were a tutor, and past inquire away. It tin past reply your questions utilizing your discourse successful a regular chat format. 

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You tin besides adhd erstwhile chats from the sidebar to your Project. The chats tin beryllium saved successful the Project, making it easier to prime up your conversations aboriginal and cognize precisely what to look for where.

Beyond becoming disposable to escaped users, Projects besides got immoderate different adjuvant updates, including larger record uploads per project, the quality to prime colors and icons for a clearer distinction, and project-only representation controls. The record upload limits alteration per the program you have, with up to 5 for Free users, 25 for Plus, and 40 for Pro, Business, and Enterprise accounts.

How to entree Projects

OpenAI said that the update is unrecorded connected the web and Android and volition rotation retired to iOS users implicit the coming days. Of course, each the users who could antecedently entree it volition proceed to beryllium capable to bash so. 

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To motorboat the feature, conscionable click connected "Projects" connected apical of the chat past connected the left-hand barroom and you should beryllium set.