Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI adds apps and identity to ChatGPT
OpenAI said ChatGPT would suggest apps during conversation, support sign-in across services and host partner tools and agents, while it stopped short of announcing app-store-style billing.
- OpenAI said ChatGPT would suggest apps during conversations when it judged them useful for a task.
- The company said ChatGPT had 1.2 billion weekly users and that its plug-in architecture now supported extensions.
- OpenAI said Sign in with ChatGPT would let users carry their AI allowance into third-party apps and named 16 launch partners.
- OpenAI said its Dots agents would use cloud computers and browsers, connect to more than 4,000 apps and do background research with user approval.
- OpenAI did not announce a billing or revenue-sharing system comparable to traditional app stores.
OpenAI used its Dev Day announcements to present ChatGPT as a place where software could be found, opened and used. The company said the chatbot would suggest apps during conversation when it thought they could help complete a task, and users would be able to connect them inside ChatGPT.
OpenAI said ChatGPT had 1.2 billion weekly users and that its plug-in system now supported extensions with interactive panels. It also introduced Sign in with ChatGPT, which would let people carry their AI allowance into outside apps, and said it had 16 launch partners including Cognition’s Devin, Notion, Vercel, T3, OpenClaw and Dactyl.
In demonstrations, OpenAI showed a meeting app that surfaced calendar items, let users take notes and produced a summary after the meeting ended. It also showed design work with Figma and Adobe apps, and said ChatGPT-created sites could be shared with co-workers who would sign in with their own credentials.
OpenAI said its Dots agents would have their own cloud computers and browsers, could use connected apps and could perform background research in read-only mode with user approval. The company said the system could steer users toward apps outside Apple and Google stores, but it did not announce a billing or revenue-sharing layer comparable to those stores.
Named in this story
Companies
- OpenAI
- announced the ChatGPT app and agent changes at Dev Day
- Apple
- was one of the app-store operators OpenAI contrasted with its own system
- was one of the app-store operators OpenAI contrasted with its own system
- Cognition
- was listed among the launch partners
- Notion
- was listed among the launch partners
- Vercel
- was listed among the launch partners
- Figma
- was shown as a design app that could run inside ChatGPT
- Adobe
- was shown as a design app that could run inside ChatGPT and was also named as a marketplace partner
- Sierra
- was named as a marketplace partner
- Decagon
- was named as a marketplace partner
- HubSpot
- was named as a marketplace partner
- Salesforce
- was named as a marketplace partner
- ServiceNow
- was named as a marketplace partner
- Harvey
- was named as a marketplace partner
- Legora
- was named as a marketplace partner
Organisations
- T3
- was listed among the launch partners
- OpenClaw
- was listed among the launch partners
- Dactyl
- was listed among the launch partners
Products and systems
- ChatGPT
- was being turned into a place to discover and launch apps
- Dots
- were the autonomous agents OpenAI launched
- Sign in with ChatGPT
- was the identity feature for third-party apps
- OpenAI Marketplace
- was the new enterprise app marketplace
- Codex
- was cited as a product that could connect to subscribed services
- Devin
- was listed as Cognition’s launch partner product
How the source tells it
The article was promotional and analytical, with a strong speculative tilt toward OpenAI’s preferred market narrative.
- hype disruption language and sweeping claims about a new software distribution model
- speculation presented as fact market outcomes were described as if the company’s plans would deliver them
- vendor boosterism OpenAI’s own demos and product framing were repeated with little challenge