OpenAI's launched an agent builder, ChatGPT apps, and more (!)
Apps SDK, Agent Builder, and much more
OpenAI held its annual Developer Day this week, and the announcements signaled the next phase of OpenAI as a platform company. More than four million developers now build on OpenAI’s API, and over eight hundred million people use ChatGPT weekly.
The headline: apps are coming to ChatGPT.
Today, we’ll cover a few big things:
The new ChatGPT app ecosystem
How ChatGPT apps work
The release of Agent builder (!!!)
New Codex updates
The Sora release
The ChatGPT app ecosystem
For the first time, developers can build applications that live directly inside ChatGPT. These are conversational apps that feel native to the chat experience. OpenAI calls this “a new generation of apps you can chat with,” and they’re powered by a new Apps SDK, available today in preview.
When you’re chatting with ChatGPT, you can either call an app by name (“Spotify, make a playlist for my party this Friday”) or let ChatGPT suggest one when it’s contextually relevant. Talk about buying a new home, and the Zillow app can appear automatically with an interactive map of listings you can browse without ever leaving the chat.
These apps combine familiar UI elements like maps, slides, and playlists with natural language interaction, making it feel like the web’s functionality has been folded into conversation itself.
Apps are already available for all logged-in ChatGPT users (outside the EU for now) across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. Pilot partners include Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Expedia, Figma, Spotify, and Zillow. Eleven more are expected later this year, and OpenAI says EU users will get access soon.
This is awesome. I’ve long held the opinion that OpenAI is a product company rather than a model company, and I think this really solidifies that. My favorite app so far is Canva, and I can’t wait to see what else integrates.