A workspace built around ChatGPT
Space is a shared area inside ChatGPT where colleagues can work with the chatbot and OpenAI’s Dots, recently launched AI agents that perform tasks on users’ behalf. It can also hold pages and files, much like a drive.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said users can give an individual page its own instructions. For example, a page could check a team channel and update itself with information it finds. Altman also described spaces as dynamic.
Documents and slides, made with agents
Pages is OpenAI’s collaborative text editor, comparable to Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Users can write and search for information, create charts and images, and visualize data.
The company also introduced collaborative slides, an alternative to PowerPoint. Users can start by discussing a task with ChatGPT; employees and AI agents can then work on the slides together, leave comments and make edits.
The harder question is adoption
OpenAI is moving into territory held by Microsoft even as Microsoft and other software companies, including Salesforce, try to become more like OpenAI. Both companies have released many AI products over the past year as the software industry changes.
I think the announcement’s most important detail is not that ChatGPT can now make documents and slides. It is that OpenAI wants the chatbot, agents and shared work to live in one place. But the description leaves out what would make that setup dependable for a team: how the tools handle existing files and workflows, and what boundaries govern agents acting on users’ behalf. Without those answers, this looks more like a bid to own the work surface than proof that the old office suite is ready to go.
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