Update from March 20, 2026:
The Wall Street Journal has new details on OpenAI's plan to roll its various products into a single desktop app. The company wants to combine ChatGPT, the Codex coding platform, and its Atlas browser into what it's calling a "superapp." The idea is to simplify the user experience and consolidate resources, the Wall Street Journal reports.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman is temporarily leading the overhaul, while Fidji Simo, who runs the app division, will handle distribution of the new product. The move comes after a rough year in which OpenAI shipped several standalone products that didn't always click with users and led to internal fragmentation (see below).
In an internal memo, Simo wrote that spreading the company across too many apps had slowed things down. The new app will lean heavily into "agentic" AI features, where AI systems autonomously handle tasks on a user's computer. OpenAI also sees this as a way to better compete with Anthropic, which already bundles the Claude chatbot, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork into a single desktop app, a so-called "harness" for agentic AI models. The latter two are agentic systems built for more complex tasks like interacting with file systems and other tools.
