Updated September 17, 2025
With all the hubbub surrounding the release of GPT-5 and other major AI advancements, there are a few cool features of ChatGPT that flew under the radar. Here is a curated list of the top five most interesting, useful, and just plain cool new features of ChatGPT that you may not have heard of.
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1. Learn anything with ChatGPT
There is a new mode that you can activate in any ChatGPT session called “Study and learn.” This feature is amazing for a couple of reasons:
- The experience is tailored specifically for efficiently learning new information
- The background prompting is done for you; no more complicated learning prompting frameworks to remember
Let’s check out an example. Let’s say that I want to learn about quantum entanglement, but I don’t have much of a background on quantum physics. With learning mode, we can create a curriculum to build up to a deep understanding of a subject as complex as this. Take a look at the first step, where it asks me questions: