ChatGPT Wants to Act More Like an OS -- as It Transforms Into an App Platform
OpenAI’s new developer tools enable building interactive apps and autonomous AI agents inside ChatGPT, integrating services from major partners like Expedia and Canva.
- At DevDay in San Francisco, Sam Altman announced new developer toolkits, framing ChatGPT as a full software platform beyond a chatbot.
- OpenAI's gambit is to embed apps inside GPT to keep users and developers in its walled garden, and the company announced plans last month to build $1 trillion of computing capacity despite ongoing losses.
- The company also released the Apps SDK with partners Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify and Zillow, plus AgentKit for building AI agents and Codex, now generally available.
- More than 1,500 developers gathered as Apps-in-ChatGPT launched for logged-in users and the Apps SDK entered preview, with app submissions and Enterprise access planned later this year while Europe remains unsupported.
- Industry reaction highlighted concerns about curation risks as developer community debated spam potential while OpenAI backed the launch with a 6 gigawatt AMD deal and 160 million shares warrant; Codex usage surged 10x, serving over 40 trillion tokens.
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: From ChatGPT Apps to AgentKit for Developers, Here's Everything You Need to Know
OpenAI hosted DevDay 2025 on Monday, unveiling several updates for users and developers. The biggest highlight is a new ChatGPT feature that lets users interact with third-party apps like Canva and Spotify without leaving the interface. The company also introduced AgentKit for developers to build and optimise agentic workflows, while GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2, and Sora 2 Pro are now available via API.
OpenAI Released Apps that Work Inside ChatGPT and an SDK
New York OpenAI issued an app feature yesterday that includes, as initial pilots, Coursera, Canva, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, Zillow, and Booking.com, which will be integrated into ChatGPT. Developers will be able to start building and adding apps “later this year” with an open-source Apps SDK, initially as a preview mode. This framework is built on the MCP (Model Context Protocol), an open standard that enables ChatGPT to connect to external tool…
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