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OpenAI is making it easier for ChatGPT users to connect with third-party apps within the chatbot to carry out tasks, the company\u2019s latest bid to turn its flagship product into a key gateway for digital services. <\/p>\n
With the new option, unveiled Monday during OpenAI\u2019s annual developers event, a ChatGPT user can ask to create a playlist for the weekend and the app will connect with Spotify to make suggestions. Alternatively, a user can look up a three-bedroom home in a specific neighborhood on Zillow, without leaving the ChatGPT app. Other apps, including Figma, Expedia and Booking.com, are also available. The feature, which OpenAI calls \u201ctalking to apps,\u201d requires users to sign in to the apps the first time. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an opportunity for builders to create entirely new applications that are even native to ChatGPT, and of course for services you love to be able to benefit there, too,\u201d said Brad Lightcap, OpenAI\u2019s chief operating officer, in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Monday. <\/p>\n
The event caps off a frenzied few weeks for the company. OpenAI completed a secondary share sale that propelled it to become the most valuable startup in the world. It introduced several notable features and products, including a social video app called Sora that quickly rose to the top of Apple Inc.\u2019s App Store. And it announced multiple large infrastructure deals with Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and others to support broader adoption of its technology.<\/p>\n
In a sign of OpenAI\u2019s rising influence in the market, a long list of companies, including Figma Inc., Expedia Group Inc. and Booking Holdings Inc., saw their stocks jump on Monday after being mentioned during the developer event. \u201cThis is a strange new thing that started happening,\u201d OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said in a press briefing when asked about the market moves. \u201cWe are trying to figure out how to adjust for this kind of world, but it\u2019s weird.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jony Ive, the legendary designer of Apple products, also spoke at Monday\u2019s event. Ive and Altman have said they would team up on a new AI hardware project \u2014 but details of the closely watched collaboration have been scarce so far. Ive said that his team had come up with about 15 to 20 \u201creally compelling product ideas,\u201d but narrowing down which ones to pursue has been a challenge. \u201cIt would be easy if we knew there were three good ones,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just not like that.\u201d <\/p>\n
OpenAI now has more than 800 million weekly ChatGPT users, Altman said on Monday. The service\u2019s rapid growth has helped bolster OpenAI\u2019s revenue. In September, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said at a conference that OpenAI was on track to generate $13 billion in revenue this year, up from $4 billion in 2024. Still, the AI developer has remained unprofitable due to billions of dollars in annual computing and research costs, to say nothing of OpenAI\u2019s recent spending spree on chips and data centers.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, one day we have to be very profitable and we\u2019re confident and patient that we will get there,\u201d Altman said. \u201cBut right now, we\u2019re in a phase of investment and growth.\u201d<\/p>\n
To offset some of that heavy investment, OpenAI, like its peers, is working to appeal to businesses and developers. At Monday\u2019s event, OpenAI also released software called AgentKit that is meant to help developers build and roll out so-called AI agents \u2014 generally, software that can carry out a series of tasks with little or no input from a human.<\/p>\n
Altman said a number of companies have already built agents with the tools, including Albertson\u2019s, Box Inc. and Canva Inc. \u201cSoftware used to take years or months to build,\u201d he said. \u201cIt can take minutes now.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, OpenAI also announced that it would ship smaller voice and image-generation models, optimized for quick results and lower costs. And it said that its foray into open models, where the parameters of the model are freely available, had generated 23 million downloads on the platform Hugging Face. <\/p>\n
Over the next six months, OpenAI expects ChatGPT to evolve to being more of an operating system where users can access more and new software, according to Nick Turley, who runs the ChatGPT team. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe never meant to build a chatbot when we built ChatGPT,\u201d Turley said. \u201cWe set out to build a super assistant and we got a little sidetracked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ghaffary and Metz write for Bloomberg.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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