Volkswagen is bringing its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment to the road. Or, more specifically, to the vehicles it sells in the United States.
The German automaker announced plans at CES 2024 in January to add an AI-powered chatbot to all Volkswagen models equipped with its IDA voice assistant, but the United States was excluded from that initial rollout.
Now, the automaker is making its Plus Speech voice assistant integrated with ChatGPT (which is an AI chatbot based on Cerence’s Chat Pro product and a large language model from OpenAI) available for new U.S. vehicles. The rollout begins on September 6 with the 2025
2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI models, along with 2024 ID.4 vehicles equipped with an 82 kWh battery. Most 2025 models will offer Plus Speech with AI when they enter the market.
Warning: A subscription is required, although ID.4 and ID Buzz come with three years of free access.
