ChatGPT is getting a new Connect Apps feature that will allow users to integrate their Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive with the artificial intelligence (AI) platform. This feature will allow users to eliminate the hassle of downloading documents to their devices and then manually uploading them to the AI platform. However, this feature is only available to paid chatbot users, which includes ChatGPT Plus, Teams, and Enterprise users. Namely, the AI company has also started gradually introducing GPT-4o to users around the world.
This feature was announced by OpenAI via a blog post, where it also introduced a few other features. All these features are part of the company’s spring update, which also introduced the GPT-4o AI model with emotive voice and computer vision. Now paid ChatGPT users will get the option to upload Google Sheets, Docs, Slides and Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint files directly to ChatGPT with the new Connect Apps feature.
The Connect Apps option will allow users to integrate their primary cloud storage service between Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive (both business and personal accounts) with the platform. Although the company didn’t specify, this feature should be available on both the website and mobile apps. To find the feature, users will need to tap on the paper clip icon located on the left edge of the text field. Tapping on the menu option will open a larger box that will display Google and Microsoft cloud storage that can be connected.
Once connected, users can directly upload files and the AI chatbot will process them. In addition, OpenAI also introduces interactive tables and graphs for ChatGPT. Now, when the platform generates a table or chart, users can interact with it and make changes. Although they won’t be able to edit manually at this stage, I can write additional queries to regroup tables or change pie chart colors and the AI will do it.
After creating the final graph or table, users will be able to download them. OpenAI says the interactive feature supports several chart types, and in case a user-specified type is not available, the chatbot will generate a static chart.
