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This brings the total number of models supported by Chat Thing to an impressive 17!\n\nWhy should you use Claude 3.5 Sonnet?\n\nIt's been taking the AI scene by storm, with many agreeing that it **outperforms GPT-4o at many tasks**. It also works out **slightly cheaper than GPT-4o in terms of input tokens**, meaning your Chat Thing message tokens will go further. \n\nAdditionally, **it has a gigantic 200k context window** compared to GPT-4o's 128k. This means it has more room to hold your chat history, load more of your data sources into context, and greater potential to generate substantial content. While GPT-4o's 128k context window is sufficient for most tasks, it's beneficial to have the option of a larger context window when needed.\n\nYou can now select Claude 3.5 Sonnet from your bot's \"General settings\" within the \"Model settings\" section.\n\n![Xnapper July 15.webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1721053521\u002FXnapper_July_15_f27ef0d0f6.webp)\n\nWe'd love to hear your thoughts on this new model!\n\n## Enhanced knowledge retrieval \n\nWe've introduced a new option called \"Enhanced knowledge retrieval\" that should significantly improve your bot's responses when users ask vague follow-up questions. \n\nTLet's illustrate this with a brief example. Take a look at this conversation with the bot we use on our [Digital Agency Site: Pixelhop](https:\u002F\u002Fpixelhop.io):\n\n![Xnapper July 15 (1).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1721054242\u002FXnapper_July_15_1_796a729fdc.webp)\n\nThe user asks, \"What projects have you worked on?\" and the bot responds with a list of our projects. That's great, and you can see beneath the response that we have several source links to pages from our site that helped build the response.\n\n![Xnapper July 15 (2).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1721054361\u002FXnapper_July_15_2_d174d96df8.webp)\n\nNext, the user asks, \"Tell me more about the last one.\" The bot's response looks acceptable at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it contains several hallucinations and fabricated facts about the project. Interestingly, it has no sources under its response. \n\n![Xnapper July 15 (3).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1721054597\u002FXnapper_July_15_3_f4a5b628fd.webp)\n\nWhy is this happening? We have an entire page dedicated to this project on the Pixelhop site, so the bot should have all the information it needs to answer correctly. \n\nPrior to the enhanced knowledge retrieval feature, when your bot searched its data sources for relevant knowledge, it was only based on the last question. In this case, the question is extremely vague. The bot doesn't know which project the user is referring to, and since the question doesn't explicitly mention the project name, the data source search returns no items it deems relevant enough to the question. \n\nEnhanced knowledge retrieval addresses this by using AI to rewrite the search question with more context from the previous conversation. For example, the question \"Tell me more about the last one\" will be converted to \"Tell me more about the Rye and Beyond project\" before it's used to search the data sources. This results in much more relevant results and significantly reduces the risk of the bot making things up or hallucinating.  \n\nObserve how much better this answer is, with no hallucinations, because it's using the correct relevant knowledge from its data sources, as you can see under the answer:\n\n![Xnapper July 15 (4).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1721055269\u002FXnapper_July_15_4_e97e733c04.webp)\n\nYou can turn this setting on from your bot's \"General settings\" in the \"Model settings\" section.\n\n![Xnapper July 15 (5).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1721055410\u002FXnapper_July_15_5_3e81835cb3.webp)\n\nEnabling this setting uses slightly more message tokens and may slow your bot's responses marginally, but we believe in most cases, this trade-off is worthwhile for better responses. \n\nIf the reaction to this feature is positive, we may consider enabling it by default in the future.\n\n### That's all for now\nWe're excited about these new features and how they can improve your Chat Thing experience. We encourage you to try them out and let us know your thoughts. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us continue to enhance our platform.\n\nHave you tried these new features yet? We'd love to hear about your experience!\n","Claude 3.5 Sonnet integration and enhanced knowledge retrieval. 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Domains: Your Bot, Your Brand, Your Domain","Your bots just got a whole lot more professional. We're excited to announce **Custom Domains** — a feature that lets you serve your Chat Thing bots from your very own domain.\n\nInstead of embedding your bot from `embed.chatthing.ai`, you can now use something like `chat.yourcompany.com` or `support.yourbrand.io`. It's fully white-labelled, SSL-secured, and takes just a few minutes to set up.\n\n## Why Custom Domains?\n\nWhen you embed a Chat Thing bot on your website, your users see our domain in the embed URL. For most use cases that's fine, but if you're building a product, running an agency, or just want that extra polish — having your own domain makes all the difference.\n\n**Benefits include:**\n\n- **Brand consistency** — Your bot lives on your domain, matching the rest of your site\n- **Trust signals** — Users see your domain, not a third party\n- **Professional appearance** — Perfect for client-facing bots and enterprise deployments\n- **Full SSL coverage** — We handle certificates automatically via Cloudflare\n\n## How It Works\n\nSetting up a custom domain is straightforward:\n\n1. **Add your domain** — Head to your bot's Web channel settings and enter your desired domain (e.g., `chat.yourcompany.com`)\n2. **Configure DNS** — We'll generate three DNS records for you to add:\n   - A TXT record for SSL certificate validation\n   - A TXT record to verify domain ownership\n   - A CNAME record pointing to `embed.chatthing.ai`\n3. **Verify and go live** — Click verify, wait for DNS propagation, and you're done!\n\n![Custom domains section](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1770654691\u002Fdocs\u002Fmzhljvoxddzbh2rqbbqd.png)\n\nOnce active, your embed codes automatically update to use your custom domain. No code changes needed.\n\n![Custom domain active with embed code](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1770654295\u002Fdocs\u002Flribfkrjyalvghfyo4ed.png)\n\n## Domain Status Flow\n\nYour domain will progress through these statuses:\n\n- **Pending** — Domain added, awaiting setup\n- **DNS Pending** — Records detected, SSL certificate being issued\n- **Active** — Fully configured and ready to use ✅\n- **Failed** — Check your DNS records and try again\n\n## Availability\n\nCustom Domains is available as a paid addon. Each addon provides one custom domain slot across your team. You can purchase additional slots from your [billing page](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fapp\u002Fbilling) if you need multiple domains.\n\n## Get Started\n\nReady to give your bots a professional home? 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in Chat Thing: Dictation, Spoken Responses, Spam Protection, Bot Duplication & More!","We've been hard at work shipping some highly-requested features to help you build even better AI agents. Here’s a look at what’s new:\n\n### 🗣️ Dictation & Spoken Responses\n\nFrankly, we're a little embarrassed this one took so long, but we're thrilled to finally release Dictation and Spoken Responses for the web channel! Your users can now interact with your bots using just their voice for a more natural and accessible experience.\n\nAnd this is just the beginning—soon, you’ll be able to customise the voice to perfectly match your brand.\n\nLearn how to enable it in the [Web Channel Documentation](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fweb-channel#dictation-and-spoken-responses).\n\n![Xnapper-2025-07-30-20.00.42.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1753902103\u002FXnapper_2025_07_30_20_00_42_d3a9b00e2d.png)\n\n### 🛡️ Spam Protection\n\nProtect your public-facing bots from abuse with our new Spam Protection feature. Powered by Cloudflare Turnstile, it provides a seamless, privacy-preserving way to block automated spam without forcing your users to solve annoying CAPTCHAs. You can activate it from your web channel settings.\n\nCheck out the [Spam Protection Documentation](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fweb-channel#spam-protection) to get started.\n\n![Cloudflare turnstile spam protection](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1753965261\u002FCloudflare_turnstile_spam_protection_f03ff305b8.png)\n\n### 💬 \"Talk to a human\" Power-up Update\n\nWe've made our \"Talk to a human\" power-up more flexible. You can now specify exactly which email address you want escalations to be forwarded to, directly within the power-up settings.\n\nFind out more in the[ Talk to a human Docs](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Ftalk-to-a-human).\n\n### ✨ Duplicate your Bots\n\nSpeed up your workflow with bot duplication! You can now create a copy of any existing bot, with full control to choose what you want to include—from data sources and prompts to channel settings and power-ups.\n\nLearn how in the [Duplicating Bots Documentation](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fduplicating-bots).\n\n### Advanced: New Dynamic Prompt Tags\n\nFor our advanced users, you can now include two new replacement tags in your prompts that will be replaced dynamically at runtime: \u003Cbot-id> and \u003Cconversation-id>. This allows for more advanced logging, tracking, and multi-agent workflows.\n\n---\n\nWe can’t wait to see what you think of these updates, happy agent building","Announcing new Chat Thing features: Add voice dictation and spoken responses to your bot, enable Cloudflare spam protection, duplicate bots, and more.","new-in-chat-thing-dictation-spoken-responses-spam-protection-bot-duplication-and-more","2025-07-31T13:58:00.791Z","2025-07-31T14:00:47.897Z","2025-07-31T13:58:05.390Z","oqpzapmxkep0kh8kv70pb38f",{"id":242,"name":243,"alternativeText":15,"caption":15,"width":20,"height":21,"formats":244,"hash":275,"ext":246,"mime":249,"size":276,"url":277,"previewUrl":15,"provider":61,"provider_metadata":278,"createdAt":279,"updatedAt":279,"documentId":280,"publishedAt":65,"focalPoint":15},670,"Audio and spam protection.png",{"large":245,"small":254,"medium":261,"thumbnail":268},{"ext":246,"url":247,"hash":248,"mime":249,"name":250,"path":15,"size":251,"width":30,"height":151,"sizeInBytes":252,"provider_metadata":253},".png","https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1753970224\u002Flarge_Audio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000.png","large_Audio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000","image\u002Fpng","large_Audio and spam protection.png",277.43,277434,{"public_id":248,"resource_type":33},{"ext":246,"url":255,"hash":256,"mime":249,"name":257,"path":15,"size":258,"width":39,"height":40,"sizeInBytes":259,"provider_metadata":260},"https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1753970223\u002Fsmall_Audio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000.png","small_Audio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000","small_Audio and spam protection.png",79.14,79135,{"public_id":256,"resource_type":33},{"ext":246,"url":262,"hash":263,"mime":249,"name":264,"path":15,"size":265,"width":47,"height":48,"sizeInBytes":266,"provider_metadata":267},"https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1753970223\u002Fmedium_Audio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000.png","medium_Audio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000","medium_Audio and spam protection.png",157.7,157704,{"public_id":263,"resource_type":33},{"ext":246,"url":269,"hash":270,"mime":249,"name":271,"path":15,"size":272,"width":55,"height":56,"sizeInBytes":273,"provider_metadata":274},"https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1753970223\u002Fthumbnail_Audio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000.png","thumbnail_Audio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000","thumbnail_Audio and spam protection.png",28.05,28048,{"public_id":270,"resource_type":33},"Audio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000",235.92,"https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1753970223\u002FAudio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000.png",{"public_id":275,"resource_type":33},"2025-07-31T13:57:04.793Z","uxsjqm1a2n6w8usjw345lxrc",{"id":67,"Name":68,"createdAt":69,"updatedAt":70,"publishedAt":71,"documentId":72,"Image":282},{"id":74,"name":75,"alternativeText":15,"caption":15,"width":76,"height":76,"formats":283,"hash":105,"ext":79,"mime":82,"size":106,"url":107,"previewUrl":15,"provider":61,"provider_metadata":292,"createdAt":109,"updatedAt":109,"documentId":110,"publishedAt":65,"focalPoint":15},{"large":284,"small":286,"medium":288,"thumbnail":290},{"ext":79,"url":80,"hash":81,"mime":82,"name":83,"path":15,"size":84,"width":30,"height":30,"provider_metadata":285},{"public_id":81,"resource_type":33},{"ext":79,"url":87,"hash":88,"mime":82,"name":89,"path":15,"size":90,"width":39,"height":39,"provider_metadata":287},{"public_id":88,"resource_type":33},{"ext":79,"url":93,"hash":94,"mime":82,"name":95,"path":15,"size":96,"width":47,"height":47,"provider_metadata":289},{"public_id":94,"resource_type":33},{"ext":79,"url":99,"hash":100,"mime":82,"name":101,"path":15,"size":102,"width":103,"height":103,"provider_metadata":291},{"public_id":100,"resource_type":33},{"public_id":105,"resource_type":33},{"id":294,"Title":295,"Content":296,"Description":297,"Category":10,"slug":298,"createdAt":299,"updatedAt":300,"publishedAt":301,"readTime":15,"documentId":302,"Image":303,"author":341},28,"Try GPT-4.1 now + more updates","Hi agent builders! It’s been a while but we’ve got some great updates for you today!\n\n## Introducing GPT-4.1 Models\nHot off the press, only released yesterday, we've integrated OpenAI's latest GPT-4.1 models into Chat Thing, offering significant performance enhancements across the board. You can't use these models via ChatGPT as they are API only so Chat Thing is a great place to test them out! Here's some of the improvements:\n\n- **Expanded Context Window**: Handle up to 1 million tokens, enabling deeper context understanding.​\n- **Improved Coding Capabilities**: Achieved a 54.6% score on SWE-bench Verified, surpassing GPT-4o's 33.2%. ​\n- **Enhanced Instruction Following**: Better at adhering to complex, multi-step instructions. ​\n- **Cost-Effective Options**: GPT-4.1 Nano is now our most affordable model.\n\nRead OpenAI’s announcement post [here](https:\u002F\u002Fopenai.com\u002Findex\u002Fgpt-4-1\u002F)\n\nYou can select the 4.1 models from the model selector in your bot settings now. \n\n## Enhanced Chat Responses\n\n- **Code Syntax Highlighting**: Code blocks in responses now feature syntax highlighting for improved readability.​\n![Code Block Syntax Highlighting PR 851.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1744732406\u002FCode_Block_Syntax_Highlighting_PR_851_f4893cc0d8.png)\n- **LaTeX Rendering**: Mathematical expressions are rendered using LaTeX for clearer presentation.​\n![LaTeX Math Expression Rendering PR 852.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1744732431\u002FLa_Te_X_Math_Expression_Rendering_PR_852_aa86045fe6.png)\n\n## Additional Updates\n\n- Multilingual Support: Added and refined translations for multi-modal chat interface elements.​\n- RSS Data Source Scraping: Enabled CSS exclude rules to refine content extraction.​\n- Email Enhancements: Included reply-to headers in \"talk-to-human\" emails for better communication.​\n- UI Improvements: Enhanced conversation view styling for better readability.​\n- Bug Fixes: Resolved issues including duplicate bot-to-bot responses and improved API power-up validation.​\n\nWe can’t wait to see what you think of these updates, happy agent building!","Create smarter AI agents with Chat Thing's latest update: now featuring OpenAI's GPT-4.1 models, code syntax highlighting, LaTeX rendering, and 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power-ups and SDK improvements!","## Introducing client-side power-ups: Transform your AI bots into powerful co-pilots\n\nRemember when we launched [Power-ups](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fblog\u002Flaunch-week-01-zapier-ai-actions), turning your simple Q&A bots into advanced AI agents? Well, we've got even bigger news today! \n\nWe're thrilled to introduce the next evolution in AI assistance: client-side power-ups. This game-changing feature makes Chat Thing the go-to solution for building AI co-pilots and assistants for your apps, saving weeks of development time.\n\n## What are client-side power-ups?\n\nClient-side power-ups are a new feature that allows you to create custom actions for bots embedded in your website or app. Your AI assistants can now perform virtually any action a user could – and then some! Here's a taste of what they can do:\n\n* Add products to a user's shopping cart\n* Guide users to specific pages\n* Check order shipping status\n* Highlight important information on a page\n* Fill out forms on behalf of users\n\nAnd that's just the beginning! With just a few lines of JavaScript, you can integrate your bot with any action on your website or app.\n\nWant to see it in action? Check out this quick demo of a bot integrated with an e-commerce store:\n\n{% youtube id=\"1TPpLO7vYOE\" \u002F%}\n\nWe'll be writing a detailed blog post on how we built this demo, but for the restless amongst you, take a peek at the code here: [Github - AI shopping co-pilot demo]( https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fpixelhop\u002Fai-shopping-copilot-demo)\n\n## Smart page context: Your bot always knows where it is\n\nWe've also introduced automatic page context. In simple terms, your bot now understands which page your users are on. Using your page's meta info is the easiest way to implement this.\n\nWant to go further? Add the `data-chat-thing-context=\"product-description\"` attribute to any HTML element, and your bot will use that information in its responses.\n\nThis opens up a world of possibilities for context-aware interactions:\n\n* \"Does this product contain gluten?\"\n* \"How many guests can stay in this property?\"\n* \"Are there any reviews mentioning battery life?\"\n\nAs users navigate your site, the context updates automatically, making your bot increasingly helpful!\n\nYou can also programmatically add and remove context for really advanced use cases! \n\n## Know your users: Identify logged-in visitors\n\nIf your website uses user logins, you can now identify users when they interact with your Chat Thing bot. This feature allows you to see which of your users are having conversations with your bots in the conversations sidebar.\n\n![Xnapper-2024-07-11-14.12.01.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1720703594\u002FXnapper_2024_07_11_14_12_01_9ad09f94a8.png)\n\n## Tailor your bot's behavior with page-specific prompts\n\nDifferent sections of your app may require different bot behaviours. For example, you might want your Chat Thing assistant to offer different support in the billing section compared to the new bot wizard.\n\nNow, you can programmatically extend or replace your bot's system message from the front end. This means you can easily adjust your bot's prompt based on what your user tries to achieve in your app.\n\n## Powerful SDK improvements\n\nWe've packed in several other SDK improvements to make integrating Chat Thing into your apps and websites even smoother:\n\n* Send messages on behalf of users\n* Start new conversations\n* Show or hide the widget trigger\n* Open and close the chat window\n* Trigger preview messages\n\nAre you curious about all the new SDK capabilities? Check out our [SDK Documentation](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fsdk) for a complete overview.\n\n## What's next?\n\nWe believe these new features will save you countless hours in developing AI assistants for your apps. Combined with your app's knowledge (added via data sources), these features allow you to create an assistant with all the context and abilities needed to truly help your users.\n\nWhile this feature is hot off the press and our documentation is still growing, we're working hard to provide more examples and demos you can use as starting points.\n\nWe'd love to hear your thoughts! Have ideas on how we can make Chat Thing even better? Drop us a line – your feedback shapes our future updates!\n","Introducing client-side power-ups: Create AI co-pilots that take action in your apps. Build smarter bots that understand context and boost user experience. ","client-side-power-ups-and-sdk-improvements","2024-07-11T11:19:01.168Z","2024-07-11T16:01:20.223Z","2024-07-11T16:01:20.215Z","mf36pm118q4ihd41bcnpuxkb",{"id":370,"Title":371,"Content":372,"Description":373,"Category":10,"slug":374,"createdAt":375,"updatedAt":376,"publishedAt":377,"readTime":15,"documentId":378},21,"GPT-4o mini live on Chat Thing","We're excited to announce that Chat Thing has integrated OpenAI's latest model, GPT-4o mini, into our platform! This powerful new AI brings enhanced capabilities and cost-efficiency to your chatbots and AI-driven solutions.\n\nYou can now choose GPT-4o mini from your bot  model settings.\n\n![Xnapper-2024-07-20-14.12.04.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1721482456\u002FXnapper_2024_07_20_14_12_04_05d5131d0f.png)\n\nKey benefits of GPT-4o mini on Chat Thing:\n* **Superior intelligence**: Outperforms GPT-3.5 Turbo on various benchmarks, including reasoning, math, and coding tasks.\n* **Multimodal capabilities**: Supports both text and vision inputs, with future expansions planned for video and audio.\n* **Affordable pricing**: Up to 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo, making AI more accessible for businesses of all sizes. Its now the cheapest model on Chat Thing meaning your message tokens go further!\n* **Expanded context window**: 128K tokens allow for processing larger amounts of information in a single request.\n* **Improved non-English language handling**: More cost-effective for multilingual applications.\n* **Enhanced safety features**: Built-in protections against jailbreaks and prompt injections.\n\nWhether you're building customer support chatbots, automating workflows, generating content, or developing lead generation tools, GPT-4o mini on Chat Thing offers the perfect balance of performance and affordability.","Chat Thing now integrates GPT-4o mini: Enhance your AI bots with superior intelligence, multimodal capabilities, and cost-efficiency. Upgrade today!","gpt-4o-mini-live-on-chat-thing","2024-07-20T13:13:21.576Z","2024-07-20T13:36:03.947Z","2024-07-20T13:36:03.938Z","fqbhre3duiekxw61yv5z8z8v"]