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Following closely on the heels of its whopping $6.6 billion funding round, OpenAI on Thursday made the beta of a brand-new collaboration interface for ChatGPT debut, and it’s called Canvas. “We are essentially revolutionizing the way humans can collaborate with ChatGPT ever since its launch two years ago,” wrote Canvas research lead Karina Nguyen in a post on X (formerly Twitter). She describes it as “a fresh interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go well beyond simple chatting.”

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For the very first time, we are fundamentally altering how humans can collaborate with ChatGPT since its launch two years ago.

We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for interacting with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that extend beyond simple chat.

Product and model features:…

— Karina Nguyen (@karinanguyen_) October 3, 2024

Canvas seems to operate much like the Claude’s Artifacts window (which is available for free), providing users with a real-time view of the chatbot’s output in a separate window outside the chat stream. According to the announcement post, the feature works autonomously, and ChatGPT automatically launches Canvas when it “detects a scenario where it could be helpful.”

With Canvas, users can give the AI inline feedback on its generated content, either for specific lines or the entire body of work. They can highlight specific sections of code or text for ChatGPT to focus on and revise, or directly edit the output themselves. Canvas will even empower users to actively command ChatGPT to research specific subjects on the internet and incorporate that new information into the current project.

Canvas will also introduce a shortcuts menu of common tools, such as suggesting edits, adjusting the output length or reading level (ranging from kindergarten to graduate student), debugging code, adding emojis, and adding “final polish,” which checks for grammar, clarity, and consistency. Coding tasks have their own shortcut menu. Users will have quick access to tools like Review Code, Add Logs, Add Comments, Fix Bugs, and Port to a Language, which translates code between JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, and PHP.

We’re rolling out an early version of canvas—a new way to work with ChatGPT on writing & coding projects that go beyond simple chat.

Starting today, Plus & Team users can try it by selecting “GPT-4o with canvas” in the model picker. https://t.co/GoGZiRzCsB

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) October 3, 2024

Canvas is still in the beta release phase and, as such, is currently only available to Plus and Teams subscribers. There is no word yet on when it will roll out to Enterprise and free-tier users.