Artificial Intelligence company OpenAI has launched a new feature called “ChatGPT Pulse”, which is designed to make the AI assistant more proactive and personalized.
Traditionally, ChatGPT has operated reactively, responding only when users ask questions. With Pulse, the platform becomes a proactive assistant that works in the background, delivering relevant updates and research without waiting for a prompt.
Announcing the release, OpenAI wrote via a blogpost. Part of it reads,
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“Today we’re releasing a preview of ChatGPT Pulse to Pro users on mobile. Pulse is a new experience where ChatGPT proactively does research to deliver personalized updates based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar.
“You can curate what ChatGPT researches by letting it know what’s useful and what isn’t. The research appears in Pulse as topical visual cards you can scan quickly or open for more detail, so each day starts with a new, focused set of updates.”
The new feature currently available in preview for Pro users on mobile, automatically conducts asynchronous research each night. It uses information from a user’s memory, chat history, and direct feedback to generate a curated set of updates delivered the next morning.
These updates may include follow-ups on topics the user often searches about, suggestions for a relationship, and actionable steps toward long-term goals, among others. To provide an even richer context, Pulse can connect with apps like Gmail and Google Calendar.
When connected, it can generate helpful outputs such as meeting agendas, birthday gift reminders, or restaurant suggestions for upcoming trips. However, these integrations according to OpenAI are optional and can be enabled or disabled at any time.
Each morning, Pulse delivers its findings in the form of visual cards, offering a quick way for users to scan updates or explore topics in greater detail. Updates are available for that day only, unless the user saves them to their chat history or requests follow-up information.
Users play a crucial role in refining Pulse. By tapping the “curate” option, they can request specific updates for future editions such as a Friday roundup of local events, learning tips for a new skill, or targeted news like professional tennis updates. Feedback tools like thumbs up and thumbs down allow users to guide the system, which continuously improves based on this input.
In a test conducted with college students through the ChatGPT Lab, valuable insights were provided for development. One notable finding was that the feature becomes most useful once users actively share what they want to see, prompting OpenAI to enhance feedback options.
While Pulse represents a major advancement, OpenAI warns that it remains in preview and may not always be perfectly accurate. Users might occasionally receive outdated or irrelevant suggestions, but they can directly guide Pulse to improve future results.
Looking Ahead
Pulse is just the first step toward a broader vision for ChatGPT. OpenAI aims to integrate more apps and expand Pulse’s capabilities, allowing it to research, plan, and take actions on behalf of users.
With personal and everyday application now dominating ChatGPT usage, Pulse could offer real-time support by merging conversation and memories, giving users proactive responses that matter most.