ChatGPT can do many things: It can provide you with a summary of complex topics, brainstorm film ideas with you and even write code for you in different programming languages. But one thing the AI chatbot, developed by OpenAI, couldn’t do for a long time was access and read photos, documents and other files.
The AI chatbot roster — as with other generative AI tools — is expansive and growing, with Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude.ai, Perplexity, Dall-E, Midjourney and others on the list. They’re collectively poised to transform how you work, how you get information and how companies do business. But it all started with ChatGPT.
If you wanted ChatGPT to analyze information from something like a PDF or an Excel spreadsheet, you were once out of luck. You’d have to type the information from the document into the chat thread without uploading anything.
But that’s no longer the case. With ChatGPT-4, the latest version of ChatGPT, you can now upload any file from your device. Read on to understand who can upload files, why you’d want to and how to upload files. Here’s everything you need to know.
Who exactly can upload files to ChatGPT?
Right now, to upload a file to ChatGPT, you need to pay for ChatGPT Plus. A subscription to ChatGPT Plus runs $20 a month, and this grants you access to ChatGPT-4 and access to the latest features, including uploading files.
If you want to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus, open the ChatGPT app on your phone, access the side panel on the left side, tap the three-dot menu at the bottom of the page, go into Subscription and make a payment. You can also subscribe to ChatGPT Plus on your tablet or computer.
Why would you even want to upload files to ChatGPT anyway?
ChatGPT-4 can analyze any file you upload, whether it’s a PowerPoint presentation, an Excel spreadsheet, a research paper or a photo.
If you upload a spreadsheet with financial data, for example, you can ask ChatGPT to create a visual graph of the numbers. If you upload a…
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