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OpenAI is planning to turn ChatGPT into a \u201csuper app\u201d\u2014an all-purpose AI interface that brings OpenAI\u2019s key products together\u2014as it heads toward an upcoming IPO. At the center of that push is Thibault Sottiaux, the former head of Codex, who has recently been promoted to oversee OpenAI\u2019s core product platform for consumer, business, and developer customers.<\/p>\n
At the VivaTech technology conference in Paris, Sottiaux told Fortune<\/em> that the company planned to evolve ChatGPT from a conversational tool into a more personal assistant that remembers what users care about and gets better the more it learns from them. The end goal, he said, is a single, highly capable agent that can handle both simple requests and more complex tasks\u2014from answering quick questions to planning a complex trip and then booking all the travel arrangements to spinning up a custom app to help their child learn trigonometry\u2014all in one place.<\/p>\n The company plans to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agentic experience. Over the past few months, it has been reorganizing its product leadership to achieve that. Product strategy is now under OpenAI president Greg Brockman with Sottiaux leading core product and platform, and Nick Turley\u2014previously head of ChatGPT\u2014moving to lead enterprise industries. The consolidation also came with the shutdown of various side projects, including Sora, its AI video product, which was discontinued in April. The company also pulled back from expensive infrastructure commitments, halting plans for Stargate data center projects in the U.K. and Norway.<\/p>\n The push comes at a pivotal moment for OpenAI, which is eyeing a trillion-dollar IPO while trying to fend off fierce competition from rival AI lab Anthropic. The company\u2019s likely IPO is part of a wave of AI companies heading for public markets in relatively quick succession, with SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic all targeting combined valuations that add up to more than $3.6 trillion. For OpenAI, the super app is partly meant to persuade investors that it is more than a chatbot company.<\/p>\n Sottiaux, who was also instrumental in building OpenAI\u2019s popular Codex developer tool, said the company planned to use Codex as the engine powering the new super app.<\/p>\n \u201cCodex has evolved now to a place where it is very general, and it is not specific to code anymore. We\u2019re working on using all of that and bringing that directly to ChatGPT, so that it can benefit a very broad user base,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The company has made various attempts at agentic products before. But tools like Operator, the company\u2019s earlier attempt at an agentic product that could access the internet and <\/strong>take actions on the web on a user\u2019s behalf, like browsing sites, filling forms, and completing tasks autonomously, largely failed to take off with users.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can think about Operator and understand it was early,\u201d Sottiaux said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t quite work, because the models were not\u201d ready. The difference now, he argued, is that the models can handle a much larger set of tools, parse genuinely ambiguous instructions, and operate with more permissions because of advances in ensuring the models accurately follow user intentions. Operator often had to operate in a constrained \u201csandbox\u201d because it would make mistakes if given wider latitude to conduct transactions on a user\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n Super apps are ubiquitous in China and much of Southeast Asia\u2014platforms like WeChat and Alipay that bundle messaging, payments, food delivery, ride-hailing, and commerce into a single destination, so that users rarely need to leave the app to conduct daily life. Western tech companies have largely failed to replicate these kinds of apps, in part because users in the U.S. and Europe are accustomed to switching between specialized apps.<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s vision, according to Sottiaux, is less about replicating that model and more about building what he called a \u201cpersonal AGI\u201d: a unified interface that grows more capable and more personalized to a user over time. \u201cIt\u2019s about bringing more capabilities in one very simple unified interface that enables you to communicate, steer, and supervise your personal AGI,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n OpenAI is also trying to sharpen its case against Anthropic in the enterprise market\u2014a fight that has shifted slightly in Anthropic\u2019s favor over the past year.<\/p>\n Ramp\u2019s May 2026 AI Index, which tracks actual corporate spending across thousands of companies, showed Anthropic at 34.4% of U.S. business adoption against OpenAI\u2019s 32.3%, the first time Anthropic had crossed ahead. The reversal was driven largely by Claude Code, Anthropic\u2019s autonomous coding tool. ChatGPT, which launched in late 2022 as a conversational chatbot, has been viewed as more consumer-focused\u2014a perception OpenAI is now working to change.<\/p>\n Sottiaux says the company does not see a hard divide between consumer and enterprise use cases when it comes to the new product, but there is a question of whether enterprise customers would prefer tailored, vertical solutions built for specific industries and workflows over an all-in-one app. Large enterprise buyers have typically been suspicious of horizontal platforms that promise to do everything, favoring integrations that slot neatly into existing systems.<\/p>\n \u201cWe think that fundamentally the technology doesn\u2019t look that different,\u201d Sottiaux said, adding that the same system can be useful in both personal and work settings because it is about \u201cconnecting the right context, connecting the right tools, and then taking actions in a way that minimizes risk in order to deliver value.\u201d<\/p>\n OpenAI is not the only company exploring a super app for work and life. Microsoft is working on a one-stop shop that would connect GitHub Copilot, its Copilot chat function, the Cowork productivity tool, and a new agentic workflow capability into a single app, with plans to launch by the end of summer, Fortune<\/em> previously reported. Elon Musk has also long held ambitions to turn X into a super app spanning communication, media, and commerce, citing the Chinese model as a template, according to several public statements from the Tesla CEO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #OpenAI #building #super #app #heads #IPO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OpenAI is planning to turn ChatGPT into a \u201csuper app\u201d\u2014an all-purpose AI interface that brings OpenAI\u2019s key products together\u2014as it heads toward an upcoming IPO. 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