OpenAI announced a set of new features at its Dev Day event on Tuesday. The updates are designed to make ChatGPT a place where people and AI agents can find, launch and use software.
The announcements included new AI models and autonomous agents called Dots. OpenAI also introduced a way for users to carry their ChatGPT identity and AI allowance into other apps.
ChatGPT Becomes an App Launcher
OpenAI says ChatGPT now has 1.2 billion weekly users. The chatbot will start suggesting apps during conversations when it sees that one could help a user finish a task.
Users can then connect the app and use it directly inside ChatGPT. This is supported by an expanded plugin system that now includes extensions.
Extensions let developers build interactive panels. Users can work with these tools while they chat, instead of opening a separate website or mobile app.
In a demo, OpenAI showed its own meeting app running inside ChatGPT. It displayed upcoming meetings from a user's calendar, took notes with AI and produced a list of follow-up items after the meeting ended.
OpenAI also showed design apps from Figma and Adobe working inside the chatbot. Users could revise projects or use features that would normally need a standalone app.
Apps can be shared with coworkers through lightweight websites that ChatGPT now creates. Colleagues can sign in with their own credentials and permissions.
"Sign in with ChatGPT" lets users bring their AI allowance into third-party apps. OpenAI has 16 launch partners, including Cognition's Devin, Notion, Vercel, T3, OpenClaw and Dactyl, and plans to add more.
The company also changed how developers submit plugins for review. Developers can now track their review, see what needs fixing, request a human review and update their tools without starting over.
Dots Agents and a New Marketplace
OpenAI launched a new enterprise app marketplace with more than 30 partners. They include Adobe, Figma, Salesforce, HubSpot, ServiceNow, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Harvey and Baseten.
Eligible customers can apply part of their OpenAI spending commitment toward approved partner software, the company said.
The Dots agents carry out tasks on the web using their own cloud infrastructure. Each Dot has its own cloud computer and browser and can use connected apps.
OpenAI says Dots can connect to its ecosystem of more than 4,000 apps. The agents can also be proactive, offering help with a project or a bug, but only with the user's approval.
Dots will run what OpenAI calls "proactive research" in the background. They use connected apps in read-only mode, and users keep control over any actions taken.
Users could subscribe to a service on an app maker's website, then connect that account to ChatGPT or Codex for their agent to use. This offers a path to reach customers outside Apple and Google's app stores.
OpenAI has not said whether these features would remove the need for separate third-party subscriptions. It also did not announce a billing or revenue-sharing system like those used by traditional app stores.
