Custom GPTs arrive in the free version of ChatGPT

May 30. (Portaltic/EP) –

OpenAI has announced the arrival of custom GPTs to the free version of its ‘chatbot’, ChatGPT, a functionality that until now was only available to paying subscribers.

The company began rolling out customizable versions of its chatbot in early November last year. With them, which I call GPT, individual paying users and companies could create their own model, with specific purposes and focused on different areas, such as education, productivity or leisure.

These GPT can be purchased through its own ‘chatbot’ sales store, ChatGPT Store, which has been available since January of this year for ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise and Team users, the latter option being intended for work teams of smaller size.

OpenAI has now announced that custom GPTs are no longer exclusive to premium users and can now also be used by those with free accounts, as shared in their X profile.

The firm has also commented that users who are not subscribed to its assistant also have improved web access, support for image recognition, creating graphs, analyzing data or uploading documents.

It is worth remembering that the free version released a limited access version of OpenAI’s most recent generative AI model, GPT-4o, which is currently coexists with the previous model, GPT-3.5.