OpenAI takes on Microsoft and Google with office productivity push

OpenAI unveiled its long-rumored productivity software suite Tuesday with the launch of Pages, a collaborative document editor for ChatGPT. A slides app is also on the way, the company announced at its DevDay event. The Pages app is accessed via a new Space tab, which OpenAI describes as a “new home for your team to collaborate with AI to get work done.” Users can store documents and other uploaded files, as well as create and share pages, slides, and spreadsheet documents. Space replaces the Library in ChatGPT, but the Projects tab will remain as a way to organize chats and files. The announcement puts OpenAI into direct competition with incumbent office productivity software providers, such as Microsoft, Google, and Notion. “Spaces and Pages broaden the competitive overlap, because ChatGPT is moving beyond being primarily an individual assistant towards becoming a place where work can be retained, organized, and shared with colleagues,” said Maria Bell, senior research analyst at FDM CCS Insight. “That brings it closer to the collaboration layer of Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Notion, rather than simply competing with the AI assistants inside those platforms.” “OpenAI is…

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