OpenAI’s planned ‘superapp’ gets closer as one employee says ‘chat is dead’
OpenAI Group PBC is still focused on its plans to transform ChatGPT into some kind of “superapp,” and it will have a heavy focus on artificial intelligence agents and autonomous coding bots, according to a new report in the Financial Times this weekend.
By launching a superapp, the company hopes to be able to better compete with its rival Anthropic PBC, especially where business customers are concerned. It’s believed that the shift is part of an effort by OpenAI to become more profitable ahead of its initial public offering. That means transforming ChatGPT into more of a gateway application that might help lead free users to products they’re willing to pay money for, including OpenAI’s coding tool Codex.
Talk of OpenAI building some kind of superapp is not new, with occasional reports about the company’s ambitions first emerging late last year. But it appears that OpenAI is so determined to do this that one unnamed but senior employee reportedly told the Financial Times that “Chat is dead.” What’s different now is that OpenAI is getting much closer to actually doing this. The report says that ChatGPT users can expect to see a massive overhaul in the coming weeks. The changes are expected to be rolled out on ChatGPT’s website and mobile application first.
