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

OpenAI used its DevDay developer conference in San Francisco to unveil a set of ChatGPT features aimed at conventional office workflows, moving the company into more direct competition with traditional productivity software. The new offerings are built into ChatGPT and emphasize collaboration between people and AI agents. The centerpiece called Space is a shared workspace where colleagues can store pages and files together and interact with both the chatbot and Dots, OpenAI’s agent personas. CEO Sam Altman described Spaces as repositories that can be given specific instructions — for example, checking a team channel and updating a page with findings — to keep content continuously updated. OpenAI also introduced Pages, a document editor designed for joint work between humans and agents. The company says Pages can be used for writing, research, generating charts, creating images, and visualizing information, positioning it as an alternative to document tools from Google and Microsoft. Separately, OpenAI announced collaborative Slides, a presentation tool that can be produced by conversational prompts within ChatGPT and then edited and commented on by multiple workers and agents; Slides will be made available to users in the coming weeks, according to an OpenAI representative. The moves come as established software firms react to the rising influence of generative AI. Microsoft, a longtime OpenAI partner, and other enterprise software vendors including Salesforce have released their own AI features over the past year as they adapt to the shifting product landscape. OpenAI’s entry into workplace tooling underscores how companies across the software industry are increasingly integrating large-language-model capabilities into core productivity applications.