ChatGPT Gets Its Own Office Suite, Agents Included

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OpenAI used its DevDay developer conference in San Francisco to announce a set of ChatGPT features aimed squarely at office workers. Taken together, they look a lot like an office suite, which puts OpenAI on a collision course with Microsoft, its long-time close partner. The new tools let colleagues work with the chatbot and with “Dots”, OpenAI’s newly launched AI agent personas that can carry out tasks on a user’s behalf.

Three tools, one familiar shape

  • Space is a shared workspace where pages and files are stored together. CEO Sam Altman compared it to a drive, then added a twist: “spaces feel alive.” A user can give a page instructions, for example to check a team channel and update the page with what it finds.
  • Pages is a word processor that OpenAI describes as a new type of document built for human and agent collaboration. Users can write, research, generate charts and images and visualise information in one place.
  • Collaborative slides are OpenAI’s answer to PowerPoint. A deck is generated by describing it in ChatGPT, and then several people and agents can edit it and leave comments.

Slides are not available yet: an OpenAI representative said they will roll out in the coming weeks. No release date or rollout details were given for Space, Pages or Dots, so teams hoping to retire their old tools tomorrow will have to keep their old templates a little longer.

Why it matters for how teams work

The interesting shift is not another editor but who is editing. In this model, an agent is a regular participant in the document, able to research, update and revise alongside the people on the team. Microsoft, Salesforce and other software companies have released many AI products over the past year as they try to keep pace with OpenAI, and this launch raises the stakes on the most ordinary tools of office life: the document, the deck and the shared folder.

For managers, the practical question is less about features and more about habits. If a page can update itself from a team channel, someone still has to decide what it should track and who checks the result. The productivity gain will depend on that second part, not just on how alive the spaces feel.