OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT With Vision Capabilities And Festive "Santa Mode"

OpenAI has also introduced a festive "Santa Mode" for voice interactions. This limited-time feature allows users to chat with Santa Claus adding a fun and seasonal touch to the chatbot.

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OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT With Vision Capabilities And Festive

OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT With Vision Capabilities And Festive "Santa Mode"

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has made a big improvement to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode by adding vision capabilities.

This means that ChatGPT can now understand and respond to live video input and even share screens during conversations. Users can now chat with ChatGPT using their smartphone camera allowing the chatbot to “see” what they see.

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The team also showed how ChatGPT can support screen sharing, and understanding an open message on a smartphone.

With this update, ChatGPT can understand and discuss visual context in real and users can now access this feature through a new video icon in the mobile app and screen sharing is available through a separate menu option.

This new feature is available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Team subscribers, and will be available to Enterprise and Edu users in January.

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OpenAI has also introduced a festive “Santa Mode” for voice interactions. This limited-time feature allows users to chat with Santa Claus adding a fun and seasonal touch to the chatbot. The “Santa Mode” will be available until early January.

The update was demonstrated by OpenAI’s CPO, Kevin Weil, who showed how ChatGPT can help with tasks like making pour-over coffee.


During the demo, the team pointed the camera at the action and ChatGPT understood the principle of the coffee maker and explained brewing.