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At OpenAI DevDay, the company unveiled new capabilities for apps in ChatGPT.
This is a preview of a more all-encompassing ChatGPT experience.
Nick Turley, Head of ChatGPT, says it will act more like an operating system.
Over the past year, numerous developments have occurred in the AI space, including agentic assistants that can carry out tasks on your behalf and more seamless, multimodal ways to interact with chatbots. Yet, the way you can interact with ChatGPT has remained mostly unchanged: it's an AI chatbot with a traditional Q&A format. That may change soon.
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At OpenAI DevDay 2025, the company took the stage to unveil a range of updates designed to help developers build and deploy AI solutions more efficiently. A major highlight was the launch of the Apps SDK, which, in simple terms, enables developers to build actual Apps within the ChatGPT interface. This is a glimpse into the next phase of OpenAI's core product, which Nick Turley, Head of ChatGPT, told me in a press Q&A would function like an OS.
"What you're going to see over the next six months is an evolution from an app that is really useful into something that feels a little bit more like an operating system where you can access business services and you can access software, both the existing software they're used to, but more importantly and most excitingly, new software that's been built natively on top of ChatGPT."
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