Although a long-time partner of Microsoft, OpenAI is increasingly targeting Microsoft’s core business—workplace software—by introducing new features that closely resemble an office productivity suite.
At its Dev Day developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled several new ChatGPT functionalities specifically tailored for professionals.
Most notably, OpenAI launched “Space,” a collaborative workspace within ChatGPT where colleagues can interact with the chatbot and their personalized AI agent personas, known as “Dots” (designed to perform tasks on a user’s behalf), to accomplish various work-related objectives.
“Your pages and files all live together in Space, like they would in a drive,” stated CEO Sam Altman during Tuesday’s presentation. He added that “spaces feel alive,” explaining that users can provide a page with specific instructions, such as monitoring a team channel and updating its content with new findings.
OpenAI also announced “Pages,” a companion word processor described by the company as “a new type of document, built for human and agent collaboration.” This appears to be OpenAI’s answer to applications like Google Docs and Microsoft Word, enabling users to “write, research, generate charts, create images, or visualize information.”
Furthermore, OpenAI has introduced its version of PowerPoint with “collaborative slides.” These slides can be generated simply by verbally describing them within ChatGPT. Once created, multiple workers and agents can co-edit them, adding comments and making revisions.
As OpenAI ventures further into Microsoft’s territory, Microsoft and other software companies, such as Salesforce, are simultaneously working to integrate more OpenAI-like capabilities. Over the past year, both companies have released numerous AI-powered products, reflecting the software industry’s rapid adaptation to the evolving technological landscape.