{"id":490124,"date":"2026-06-09T05:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490124\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:45:36","slug":"openai-is-still-working-on-that-super-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490124\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI is still working on that \u2018super app\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI plans to roll out a revamped version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks \u2014 one that will serve as a \u201csuper app\u201d with coding tools and AI agents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ca0f5f5e-fb9a-41a0-a2a9-0127e15b7db9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company\u2019s goal is reportedly to become more competitive with Anthropic, particularly among business customers, and to get closer to profitability before an IPO. That means turning ChatGPT into a gateway leading free users to products they might actually pay for, such as coding product Codex. In fact, FT quotes one senior OpenAI employee as declaring, \u201cChat is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thibault Sottiaux, who leads OpenAI\u2019s core product and platform, said the company is working toward a product \u201cwhere you have your own personal agent that is capable of helping you \u2026 across everything in your life, be it personally or at work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If this sounds familiar, it\u2019s because there have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91417700\/openai-true-ambition-super-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports about OpenAI\u2019s super app ambitions <\/a>since last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March, The Wall Street Journal reported that these plans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/openai-plans-launch-of-desktop-superapp-to-refocus-simplify-user-experience-9e19931d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">represent a major strategy shift<\/a> for the company after launching a variety of standalone products in 2025; OpenAI executives now say <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/17\/kevin-weil-and-bill-peebles-exit-openai-as-company-continues-to-shed-side-quests\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they\u2019re abandoning \u201cside quests<\/a>\u201d like <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/29\/why-openai-really-shut-down-sora\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video generator Sora<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI plans to roll out a revamped version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks \u2014 one that will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,2670,61,2029,60,1682,80],"class_list":["post-490124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chatgpt","tag-ie","tag-in-brief","tag-ireland","tag-openai","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}