OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Workspace, Documents and Slides in Push Into Microsoft's Office Turf

The centerpiece is a feature called Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT where coworkers can collaborate with the chatbot and with OpenAI's newly launched AI agent personas, known as Dots, which can carry out tasks on a user's behalf. "Your pages and files all live together in Space, like they would in a drive," chief executive Sam Altman said during the presentation. "But spaces feel alive." Altman said users can give a page specific instructions, such as checking a team channel and updating the page with what it finds.

OpenAI also introduced Pages, a companion word processor it describes as "a new type of document, built for human and agent collaboration," which appears to be its answer to Google Docs and Microsoft Word. According to the company, users can write, research, generate charts, create images or visualize information in it.

The company also launched collaborative slides, its counterpart to PowerPoint. The slides can be created by talking about them inside ChatGPT, and once generated, multiple workers and agents can work in them together, leaving comments and editing them.

The event places OpenAI in more direct competition with Microsoft, which has been a close partner of the AI lab from the beginning. In the other direction, Microsoft and other software companies such as Salesforce have spent the past year releasing a stream of AI products as the industry tries to keep pace with the shifting market.

【Editor's Summary】OpenAI used its Dev Day conference to introduce Space, Pages and collaborative slides, three ChatGPT features that move it into document, presentation and shared-workspace software. The launch puts the company in closer competition with Microsoft, its longtime partner, while Microsoft and Salesforce continue adding AI products of their own. No pricing or general availability details for the new features were included in the report.