OpenAI Group PBC today launched ChatGPT Translate, a free translation service hosted on a standalone web page.
The rollout wasn’t accompanied by an announcement, which hints that the service may be a prototype. In July 2024, OpenAI launched a search engine called SearchGPT with the goal of collecting user feedback about its information retrieval features. The company folded the tool into ChatGPT a few months later.
Several interface elements appear to reaffirm that ChatGPT Translate is a prototype. A piece of marketing copy states that the service supports more than 50 languages, but it currently understands only 25. The text also alludes to a feature for translating uploaded files that doesn’t yet appear to be broadly available. OpenAI’s plan might be to…