OpenAI's ChatGPT Translator competes with Google Translate

OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Translate, a distinct web-based translation tool that offers support for over 50 languages, setting it up as a direct contender to Google Translate. 

Both services share a similar design: each presents two text boxes — one for entering or pasting the original text, and another showing the translated version — along with dropdown options to select the languages for translation.

Some key differences exist, though. Google Translate lets users upload images, documents, and even websites for translation, in addition to standard text inputs.

Meanwhile, the ChatGPT Translate homepage indicates it can handle translations from text, images, and voice, yet image support is still unavailable in any current version. 

The desktop site translates text only, while mobile browsers permit either text input or using the microphone on your device. 

OpenAI’s service also boasts extra settings to adjust the style of the translation, such as instructing it to “translate this and make it more business formal.”

The standard ChatGPT chatbot has featured translation capabilities for years, so this essentially represents OpenAI releasing it as a dedicated online service. 

Currently, there is no ChatGPT Translate app found on either Apple's or Google’s app stores, unlike Google Translate, which offers both a website and an app. 

OpenAI hasn’t disclosed any details about a future release or confirmed which AI model is used in the translation tool.