OpenAI is rolling out a feature called Intelligent UI in ChatGPT. It lets the chatbot answer questions with interactive visuals instead of plain text. According to The Verge AI, the update ships to all users alongside GPT-6 and mixes text with diagrams, charts, forms, tappable buttons and more.
This is a bigger change than it looks. For most of its life, ChatGPT has mostly answered with long blocks of text. Intelligent UI turns some answers into something closer to a small app you can click through.
What’s actually new
Here’s what the update includes, based on what OpenAI shared:
- The model decides when to show visuals. OpenAI says in a blog post that it trained GPT-6 to choose when an interactive visual works better than text, and how to lay it out in the response. So you don’t have to ask for a chart. The model judges when one will help.
- Diagrams you can explore. In one OpenAI example, a question about a seven-speed bicycle brings up a diagram of the bike. Interactive buttons highlight its different parts. It’s a good fit for anything mechanical or spatial, where a picture explains more than a paragraph.
- Lessons with visuals. Another example shows ChatGPT teaching Mahjong. It draws each tile and sorts the tiles into categories you can scroll through. Learning a game with dozens of pieces gets a lot easier when you can see them.
- Tools built on request. You can ask ChatGPT to build a working tool, like a retirement savings calculator, a bill splitter or even a retro game. It builds the tool right inside its response, so you don’t have to copy code into another app.
- Better search and faster partial answers. OpenAI says GPT-6 also improves ChatGPT’s web searches. It can give you quicker partial answers while it’s still gathering information, which helps with the long waits on research-heavy questions.
- Tougher safety training. The company says GPT-6 “showed stronger resistance to attempts to bypass its safety training.” OpenAI didn’t share details in the material covered by The Verge AI, so it’s hard to say yet how much that means in practice.
Who gets what, and when
OpenAI announced its first GPT-6 models last month. Now it’s bringing two versions, Sol and Luna, into ChatGPT, and which one you get depends on your plan:
- Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise: GPT-6 Sol, the mid-range model. Rollout starts today, worldwide.
- Go and free tiers: GPT-6 Luna, the more efficient model. Access arrives Thursday.
Notice that “mid-range” label on Sol. It suggests OpenAI is holding back a more powerful GPT-6 model, probably for the API or a future premium tier. Free users still get Intelligent UI, but on a lighter model. That could affect how well the visuals and tools hold up on harder requests.
Why this matters
What stands out here is the shift from chatbot to interface builder. Interactive outputs aren’t new in the AI world. Anthropic’s Artifacts and Google’s Gemini canvas features showed that people like seeing code and documents come to life next to a chat. But OpenAI is going further by making visuals a default part of the answer, picked by the model, instead of a separate workspace you open yourself.
For regular users, that should make some tasks easier to follow: comparing options, learning how something works or crunching personal finance numbers. For businesses, especially Enterprise customers, quick throwaway tools like calculators and forms could replace small internal apps that used to need a developer.
There are open questions, though. Generated visuals are only as accurate as the model behind them, and a polished chart can make a wrong answer look trustworthy. Users will also need to see how consistently GPT-6 picks visuals over text. Too many buttons on a simple question gets annoying fast.
What comes next
With free users getting access on Thursday, Intelligent UI is about to reach ChatGPT’s full user base very quickly. Expect rivals to answer with their own versions soon. The race in AI assistants is moving past who writes the best paragraph and toward who builds the most useful answer on screen. Full details on the rollout are available from The Verge AI.