OpenAI might be stealth-building the ultimate Google Workspace and Office 365 replacement

OpenAI is building new features within ChatGPT that would make it a direct competitor with workplace productivity suites like Google Workplace and Microsoft Office 365, The Information reported Tuesday. ZDNET has reached out to OpenAI for comment.

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The new features reportedly include collaborative document editing capabilities, like those offered by Google Docs, along with meeting transcription and a team chat function. If released, they would mark OpenAI's latest initiative to transform ChatGPT into a general-purpose AI assistant.

While OpenAI has yet to officially announce any plans to build its own workplace productivity suite, such an effort would ratchet up its competition with Google, whose web ...