If you’ve ever wanted to start a new conversation within a chat, or rather, “branch out” into a different chat, now you can. OpenAI just rolled out conversation branching, a new ChatGPT feature that lets users go in multiple directions within a single chat without losing their original thread.
Now live for all tiers, but users must be logged in to explore a new idea or test an alternate prompt without manual copying and pasting or starting over completely.
Announced by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a post on X, the update addresses a long-standing limitation in ChatGPT’s design. Until now, if you wanted to redirect a conversation in a different direction, for example, if your first prompt asked for the differences between the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro, and then you wanted to compare the MacBook Air to the Microsoft Surface, you would have to do so in a few clicks.
