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ChatGPT — August 4, 2026

This release introduces new education plugins for students and educators, enhancing learning and teaching across K-12 and college levels with tools for study guides, lesson plans, and course material creation. A significant improvement involves the handling of large text pastes, where content exceeding 10,000 characters is now automatically converted into an attachment. This change, now extended to ChatGPT Enterprise and Education users, ensures a cleaner composer interface and prevents large inputs from consuming your context window, with the flexibility to revert to a direct paste at any time.

Added

  • New education plugins for students and educators
  • Three new plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex help students and educators work with their own course materials, connected tools, and institution-approved apps.
  • Learn more about the new education plugins.

Changed

  • Large pastes are now handled as attachments for all plans
  • Starting today for ChatGPT Enterprise and Education users, long pastes are handled differently in ChatGPT.
  • If you paste more than 10k characters into the composer, ChatGPT will automatically convert the content into an attachment instead of inserting it directly into the text field. This keeps the composer cleaner and helps prevent large pastes from consuming your entire context window.
  • You can still move the content back into the message at any time by clicking on Show in text field to convert the attachment back to a direct paste.
  • This is already available to users on all other plans.
  • College Student: Create study guides, practice quizzes, flashcards, and interactive explanations using the materials you’re already studying.
  • College Educator: Develop syllabi, course materials, assessments, and interactive learning resources, including content for a learning management system.
  • K–12 Educator: Plan lessons, create classroom resources, adapt materials for different learners, and develop interactive visuals.
  • The plugins are available through ChatGPT Edu and ChatGPT for Teachers district deployments. Schools and institutions control which tools and permissions are available.