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Title: OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival To Google Workspace, Microsoft Office

Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/24/161324...

OpenAI has designed features that would allow people to collaborate on
documents and communicate via chat within ChatGPT, The Information reported
Tuesday. The features would pit OpenAI directly against Microsoft, its
biggest shareholder and business partner, and Google, whose search engine has
already lost traffic to people using ChatGPT for web searches. Whether OpenAI
will actually release the collaboration features remains unclear, the report
cautioned. The designs would target the core of Microsoft's dominant
productivity suite and could strain the companies' already complicated
relationship as OpenAI seeks Microsoft's approval for restructuring its for-
profit unit. Product chief Kevin Weil first discussed and showed off designs
for document collaboration nearly a year ago, but OpenAI lacked sufficient
staff to develop the product due to other priorities. OpenAI launched Canvas
in October, a ChatGPT feature that makes drafting documents and code easier
with AI assistance, as a possible first step toward full collaboration tools.
More recently, OpenAI developed but has not launched software allowing
multiple ChatGPT customers to communicate about shared work within the
application.

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