OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels an entire lot like ChatGPT’s personal workplace suite

OpenAI has been an in depth companion of Microsoft from the leap, however the AI lab is more and more going after the corporate’s bread and butter, office software program, with new options that intently resemble an workplace software program suite like Microsoft’s.

At its Dev Day developer convention in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI introduced a number of new ChatGPT options designed for workplace staff.

Most notably, OpenAI launched a characteristic known as Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT the place coworkers can collaborate with the chatbot and with their very own Dots, OpenAI’s newly launched AI agent personas (that may perform duties on a person’s behalf), on a variety of labor duties.

“Your pages and information all stay collectively in Space, like they might in a drive,” stated CEO Sam Altman throughout Tuesday’s presentation. “But areas really feel alive.” Altman stated customers can provide a web page particular directions, resembling checking a workforce channel and updating the web page with what it finds.

OpenAI additionally introduced Pages, a companion phrase processor that the corporate describes as “a brand new kind of doc, constructed for human and agent collaboration.” It seems to be OpenAI’s reply to Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Users can “write, analysis, generate charts, create pictures, or visualize info” in it, OpenAI says.

OpenAI has additionally launched its reply to PowerPoint with what it calls collaborative slides. These slides will be created by merely speaking about them inside ChatGPT. Once generated, a number of staff and brokers can work collectively inside them and may have the power to depart feedback and edit them.

As OpenAI edges into the territory of Microsoft, Microsoft and different software program corporations like Salesforce are busy attempting to grow to be extra like OpenAI. Over the previous 12 months, each corporations have launched a slew of AI merchandise because the software program trade makes an attempt to maintain up with the shifting panorama.