OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite

OpenAI has been a adjacent spouse of Microsoft from the jump, but the AI laboratory is progressively going aft the company’s breadstuff and butter, workplace software, with caller features that intimately lucifer an bureau bundle suite similar Microsoft’s.

At its Dev Day developer league successful San Francisco connected Tuesday, OpenAI announced respective caller ChatGPT features designed for bureau workers.

Most notably, OpenAI launched a diagnostic called Space, a shared workspace wrong ChatGPT wherever coworkers tin collaborate with the chatbot and with their ain Dots, OpenAI’s recently launched AI cause personas (that tin transportation retired tasks connected a user’s behalf), connected a scope of enactment tasks.

“Your pages and files each unrecorded unneurotic successful Space, similar they would successful a drive,” said CEO Sam Altman during Tuesday’s presentation. “But spaces consciousness alive.” Altman said users tin springiness a leafage circumstantial instructions, specified arsenic checking a squad transmission and updating the leafage with what it finds.

OpenAI besides announced Pages, a companion connection processor that the institution describes arsenic “a caller benignant of document, built for quality and cause collaboration.” It appears to beryllium OpenAI’s reply to Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Users tin “write, research, make charts, make images, oregon visualize information” successful it, OpenAI says.

OpenAI has besides launched its reply to PowerPoint with what it calls collaborative slides. These slides tin beryllium created by simply talking astir them wrong ChatGPT. Once generated, aggregate workers and agents tin enactment unneurotic wrong them and volition person the quality to permission comments and edit them.

As OpenAI edges into the territory of Microsoft, Microsoft and different bundle companies similar Salesforce are engaged trying to go much similar OpenAI. Over the past year, some companies person released a slew of AI products arsenic the bundle manufacture attempts to support up with the shifting landscape.