OpenAI Is Building an office productivity suite

(computerworld.com)

35 points | by ishita159 1 day ago

9 comments

  • lowsong 21 hours ago
    The death spiral begins as OpenAI frantically scrambles for a business model.
  • monkeydust 1 day ago
    Developing the IDE of the future for for the knowledge worker perhaps? Amazon Kiro seems a step in that direction as merge tool between Product Managers and their Engineering teams.
  • g42gregory 1 day ago
    In meantime: Microsoft kills Windsurf acquisition. Competing with your own customers does not end well, AI or not.
  • hollerith 21 hours ago
    They cannot think of an easier way to get lots of user-interaction data.
  • techpineapple 22 hours ago
    This seems like a weird detour on the way to replacing all office jobs. Unless I guess they’ll be using it as training data?
  • tiahura 1 day ago
    Why not just build a plugin?
  • ath3nd 1 day ago
    Of course they are, because the AGI future that's juuust behind the corner (if you give Sama a couple of $$$trillion that will go poof) is all about an office suite and spreadsheets. Can't wait till they invent a calendar/agenda maker! /s

    OpenAI: The future is boring

    • ramon156 23 hours ago
      No one wanted to build on OpenAI, so now they'll build it themselves!
  • pjs_ 1 day ago
    Bulleted lists literally do not work in Microsoft word so… good