Overview

• Successive Android beta builds 1.2025.273 and 1.2025.280 include code and a UI icon for Direct Messages and “Calpico Rooms,” indicating active development, according to researcher Tibor Blaho.
• Early screenshots and strings point to collaborative group features such as invite links, brainstorming and planning tools, search, joint image creation, account blocking, notifications, and an assistant auto‑response toggle.
• Participants will be able to customize the assistant’s name and personality for a room, and Blaho reports that others in a group chat cannot access a user’s personal ChatGPT memory.
• OpenAI has not announced or released the messaging feature for the ChatGPT app, and it has not confirmed whether conversations will be protected with end‑to‑end encryption.
• The prospective DM system aligns with OpenAI’s post‑DevDay push toward an “everything app” and follows Sora 2’s DM capability on iOS, while ongoing data‑use, moderation practices, a past Google indexing incident, and a legal data‑preservation order complicate strong privacy guarantees.