Finally got my hands on the upcoming new UI for ChatGPT. It has been in development for some time already, but it is indeed some sort of a fresh juice. Dropping my notes on the UX along with some screenshots 👇

In overall, the new UI brings two big things. First, it emphasizes the focus on the conversation itself by removing all the controls away under collapsible menus. And second, it is shifting the UI more towards a familiar conversational form with chat bubbles.

Chat history is now fully dedicated to this purpose and can be easily collapsed. Custom GPTs now belong to the same drop-down where the model selection is, which makes sense, but it also limits the number of pinned GPTs you can have a shortcut to.

The main menu was moved to the top right corner similar to lots of other apps including Google Gemini.

In order to access some of the menus, you would have to hover a bit more in comparison to how it used to be before, for example, to access options of custom GPTs.

In overall, I cannot say that I like this update very much. It's definitely something fresh and new. The codename of this overhaul is Juice. I assume it's a fresh juice, and it's indeed there. But it also feels like it is less appealing to power users, focusing more on casual users who would mainly focus on the conversation itself. Here I would like to hear the opinion of anyone with designer expertise. It would be very interesting to discuss 🤖

Perplexity is testing an incognito mode. It works similarly to the incognito mode for traditional browsers where your search query won't be saved in the search history.

Enabling the setting will toggle a notice on the nav bar saying "History disabled while incognito"

The new icon will be also shown on the "New Thread" popup. It seems like an active A/B test is running at this moment and some users may get access to it already.

Google is gearing up Gemini for the upcoming Google I/O announcement. This one will finally have a chance to be meaningful.

Are you watching? 👀 May 14

ChatGPT's "Juice" UI update: Everything we know so far
https://www.testingcatalog.com/chatgpts-juice-ui-update-rolls-out-with-a-focus-on-streamlined-conversations/

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Perplexity aims to revolutionise content creation with Perplexity Pages Beta
https://www.testingcatalog.com/perplexity-rolls-out-pages-feature-for-enhanced-ai-driven-content-creation/

🗞 #perplexity

Context Connectors are finally functional on ChatGPT (but not available publicly yet) 🚧

After selection, you will see a Google Drive File Browser 👀

Both Google Drive and Office 365 will be available as options. There were some traces of Notion integration in the code but it seems like it was never implemented 🥲

Udio released inpainting for Music 👀

It looks like AI-generated audio is catching up with AI-generated images.

Already available for testing 🔥

ChatGPT is working on a new UI to represent data sources of its search response. Byt default it is collapsed but makes actual sources much more visible in fact.

Incognito mode is out on Perplexity 🔥

Claude console tool now can help with building prompts. Gotta try it now 👀