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Continue your ChatGPT experience beyond WhatsApp

OpenAI Blog 21 October 2025, 17:00

OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT access through WhatsApp on January 15, 2026. Users currently relying on the WhatsApp integration will lose this method of accessing the chatbot after that date. The company is directing users to link their ChatGPT accounts directly and migrate their conversations to other platforms where the service remains available.

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ChatGPT will no longer be available on WhatsApp after January 15, 2026. Learn how to link your ChatGPT account and continue your conversations across devices.

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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