A new paradigm of proactive, steerable AI

We believe AI is going to give everyone more power than ever, so we need to make it easy for everyone to use AI to its fullest potential.

The chat interface was the first step, allowing people with no technical expertise to use AI through simple conversation. But with chat, you still have to give specific instructions, and understand what AI has the ability to do.

The next frontier is agents: AI assistants that can take action on your behalf and work like a team alongside you.

Earlier this year we launched ChatGPT Agent, which showed what was possible when ChatGPT could think and act on your behalf. It combined our breakthroughs in web interaction, research, and reasoning into one system that could carry out tasks from start to finish, while keeping you in control.

But most agents still need to be told what to do. The real breakthrough will come when AI assistants understand your goals and help you reach them without waiting for you to prompt them.

That’s what the best human assistants do. Wealthy people have always had access to assistants who understand their preferences, anticipate their needs, and can help with everything from managing appointments and booking trips to shopping for clothes. In contrast, the average U.S. household spends nearly 20 hours a week on domestic work, logistics, and errands.

We’re building AI that lets us take the level of support that only the wealthiest have been able to afford and make it available to everyone over time. And ChatGPT Pulse is the first step in that direction – starting with Pro users today, but with the goal of rolling out this intelligence to all.

Once a day, Pulse combines information from your chats, your feedback, and connected apps like Gmail and Google Calendar to deliver a focused set of updates designed to make your life easier. That might mean following up on a project, suggesting resources to advance a long-term goal, or reminding you about an upcoming commitment. Personally, Pulse has already helped me discover new emerging treatments for my health condition, recommended new painting techniques for my art practice, surfaced great weekend events for my family, and more.

Pulse also puts our breakthrough in reasoning models to work in ways that most people don’t even know are possible.

Our reasoning models were built to spend more time thinking before they answer, allowing them to work through complex tasks in science, coding, and math at near-PhD level. But until now, most people have only tapped into a fraction of the intelligence available to them. Pulse takes that intelligence and applies it proactively to your everyday life, helping you make progress on the things that matter even when you don’t think – or know how – to ask.

Just as important, Pulse is also steerable. Your feedback shapes what it does, the same way you’d guide any other kind of assistant. Over time, Pulse will learn your goals and style so support can become more personalized and useful, but you will always stay in control.

And this is only the beginning. Today Pulse connects to email and calendar. In the future, every new data stream you decide to connect to ChatGPT will create even more actions that your AI assistant can take.

This shift – from a chat interface to a proactive, steerable AI assistant working alongside you – is how AI will unlock more opportunities for more people.

Pulse is rolling out now as a preview on the ChatGPT Pro tier on mobile and coming soon to Plus, with the goal of making Pulse available to everyone over time. So let us know what you think, and we’ll keep making it better.