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ChatGPT Wants to Act More Like an OS -- as It Transforms Into an App Platform

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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