OpenAI’s new features target the app-store model, making ChatGPT an app distribution gateway
OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model
- Who
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- When
What happened
OpenAI introduced features at Dev Day that turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software, directly challenging traditional app stores. ChatGPT will recommend apps in conversations and support using them inside ChatGPT. Its extension architecture now supports interactive components that developers can build. Sign in with ChatGPT lets users bring their AI credits into third-party apps, with 16 launch partners.
Why it matters
OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into an app discovery and execution gateway, showing how it could disrupt app-store distribution.
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