OpenAI adds office-style tools to ChatGPT for work teams

In short: OpenAI announced new ChatGPT features that look and feel like an office software set for writing, sharing files, and making slides at work.

What happened

OpenAI shared several new workplace features at its Dev Day event in San Francisco. The company is best known for ChatGPT, but these updates push it closer to tools many offices already use every day, like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Google Docs.

The biggest new feature is called Space. It is a shared area inside ChatGPT where coworkers can keep pages and files together and work with ChatGPT at the same time. OpenAI said people can also collaborate with “Dots,” which are AI agent personas, meaning a helper that can do tasks for you when you are not actively typing (like a coworker you can assign a small job to).

OpenAI also announced Pages, which is a built-in writing tool. OpenAI described it as a new kind of document made for people and AI helpers to work on together. The company said Pages can help users write, research, make charts, create images, and organize information.

Finally, OpenAI introduced collaborative slides, which are presentation slides you can create by talking to ChatGPT. After the slides are created, multiple people and AI helpers can comment and edit, similar to how teams already review documents together.

Why it matters

OpenAI and Microsoft have been close partners, but these features put OpenAI more directly into the market for workplace software. For regular office workers, it could mean more of their writing, planning, and presenting happens in one place, instead of switching between separate apps.

Source: TechCrunch AI