OpenAI prioritizes macOS over Windows 11 for ChatGPT app, but why? | Laptop News

OpenAI says its ChatGPT app for Windows 11 (and Windows 10) is in the works after the Microsoft-backed AI organisation launched it for macOS today. Surprising, right? Microsoft backs OpenAI with more than $10 billion investment, and one would expect the AI giant to prioritize Windows over macOS, but that’s not the case. We probably know why.

May 13 is a big day for OpenAI. The AI company announced the “Omni” version of ChatGPT called “GPT-4o,” which can handle multimedia content better than the previous models. For example, if you’re using GPT-4o, you can interact with the AI model using texts, voice, and video/image. It works in real time.

GPT-4o isn’t dramatically different from GPT-4 Turbo, but it’s much better, thanks to speech integration. OpenAI wants more people to use its generative AI, so the company is making GPT-4o free for everyone and releasing the macOS app directly in the App Store for ChatGPT Plus subscribers today.

If you’re on Windows, you’ll get the app later this year. “We also plan to launch a Windows version later this year,” the company said in a blog post.

In a statement to Axios journalist Ina Fried, OpenAI clarified it is prioritizing the macOS version because that’s where the users are.

The statement “prioritizing the macOS version because that’s where the users are” is quite interesting because Windows has more than 70% of the desktop market share, while macOS has less than 15%.

I think it’s more than just the target user base.

It’s possible OpenAI believes Apple users would prefer a native app over a web app compared to Windows users. The decision could also be influenced by the fact that more people at OpenAI use macOS than Windows.

However, there might be another…

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