ChatGPT Just Moved Into Your Messaging App
Viber has integrated ChatGPT directly into its platform, letting users tap into AI tools without leaving their chats. The rollout brings a dedicated ChatGPT tab, chat summaries, message translation, and photo editing straight into the app people already use every day.
Rakuten Viber CEO Ofir Eyal said the goal is to make daily communication easier and more creative, adding that the partnership brings value even if users would never have sought AI out on their own. OpenAI’s VP and head of global business development, Torben Severson, framed it around timing. Messaging is where most of daily life happens, he said, so this puts AI support right where people already need it.
Five Ways to Use It
There is now a dedicated ChatGPT tab inside Viber. Open it to ask questions, brainstorm ideas, or draft text, the same way you would in the standalone ChatGPT app.
Users can also type @ChatGPT into any private or group chat to bring it into the conversation. Everyone in that chat can see and reply to what ChatGPT generates, and its responses are visually distinct from regular messages.
Long group chats are easier to catch up on now. The Chat Summary feature generates a private recap of unread messages with one tap, visible only to the person who requested it.
Image Remix lets users edit and personalize photos sent in chats, using either a prompt or one of Viber’s ready-made style templates. This is the one feature that requires signing in with a ChatGPT account.
Message translation rounds it out, letting users read and reply across languages without switching apps.
What Happens to Your Privacy
Viber says its end-to-end encryption for personal messages and calls has not changed. According to the company, ChatGPT does not get access to an entire conversation. Only the specific content a user chooses to process, a message to rewrite, a chat to summarize, a photo to remix, gets shared with OpenAI.
Users are asked to agree to OpenAI’s terms of use and privacy policy before using any ChatGPT feature for the first time. A ChatGPT account is not required to get started, though connecting one raises daily usage limits on some features.
Where It’s Rolling Out
The features are live globally for Viber users on the latest iOS and Android versions, with desktop support to follow. Viber says the rollout covers most countries where ChatGPT is supported, though a small number of countries are excluded for now due to local rollout priorities or regulations. Feature availability may still vary by region, device, and app version.
