OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Pulse in Preview

OpenAI announced a new ChatGPT experience called Pulse that delivers personalized news, research, and other updates each day. It’s available now in ChatGPT on mobile for customers with a $200 per month Pro subscription.

“Pulse is a new experience where ChatGPT proactively does research to deliver personalized updates based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar,” OpenAI explains. “You can curate what ChatGPT researches by letting it know what’s useful and what isn’t. The research appears in Pulse as topical visual cards you can scan quickly or open for more detail, so each day starts with a new, focused set of updates.”

OpenAI describes Pulse as the first step in a series of new proactive features for ChatGPT, and it will eventually roll out to Plus and free users as the company improves it based on feedback. Pulse “synthesizes” information from your ChatGPT memory, chat history, and direct feedback to learn what’s most relevant to you so it can deliver personalized, focused updates the next day. These updates can be follow-up information about topics you frequently discuss with ChatGPT, ideas for short-term goals like meal planning, and longer-term goals such as training for a triathlon, the company says.

You can optionally connect Pulse to your Google Calendar and Gmail to provide it additional context, and more apps will be added soon. And you can tell ChatGPT what you would like it to research for you each day by tapping a “Curate” button. There are thumbs up/down buttons throughout so that OpenAI can update Pulse based on your feedback.

“By combining conversation, memory, and connected apps, ChatGPT is moving from answering questions to a proactive assistant that works on your behalf,” OpenAI says. “Over time, we envision AI systems that can research, plan, and take helpful actions for you—based on your direction—so that progress happens even when you are not asking.”