On day seven of “12 Days of OpenAI,” the company announced Projects in ChatGPT — a way to customize and organize your chats.
Well, they aren’t all going to be bangers. But this one has been deemed useful by the OpenAI team for creating and organizing various projects by pulling ChatGPT’s various capabilities into one place. That includes Canvas support and connection to the web via ChatGPT Search.
Today’s announcement wasn’t a massive technological breakthrough like Sora or GPT-5 (if that’s still happening). Instead, it focused on user experience tweaks to make ChatGPT more of an everything app, that’s your go-to for writing, research, programming, web-search, and soon to come executing multi-step tasks. It may have not been a super exciting update, but it hints at OpenAI’s plans to further embed ChatGPT into everyday life.
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In the demo, CPO Kevin Weil, joined by OpenAI’s Drew Schuster and Thomas Dimson showed how Projects could be used to create a Secret Santa project. Schuster uploaded the Secret Santa group and their requests, then asked ChatGPT to randomly assign them to each other. He then asked ChatGPT to draft an email to the group. In another example, Schuster uploaded notes about various home appliances and used ChatGPT to ask when he should change the water filter in his fridge. This is useful if you’re super organized and already wrote down important notes about home maintenance. Or you could check your notes.
Moving on, Dimson used Projects to create a personal website while leaning on ChatGPT Canvas to modify the website template. ChatGPT recognized the template code and correctly made the modifications.
Projects was shipped (live in the livestream) to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Teams users, with Enterprise and Edu users receiving the feature early in the new year.