OpenAI’s appetite knows no bounds.
It wants all the GPUs. It wants all the users. And now, it wants to be the way you access the rest of the internet.
The biggest news from today’s DevDay is that ChatGPT will start surfacing third-party apps directly in conversations. The vision is clear: if ChatGPT gets its way, the digital economy will exist entirely downstream of it. You’ll shop, create, and get stuff done with other apps inside ChatGPT, which will know more about you than any service in history. An example shown onstage today was the ability to browse Zillow without leaving and even use OpenAI’s models to interact with its listings and ask questions like, “Which homes are closest to a park?” OpenAI is starting with a handful of partners before broadening access to what could cement ChatGPT as the next major platform.
On the agent side, OpenAI appears to have essentially nerfed n8n and, to some extent, Zapier today. The devil is always in the details, and I’m sure there will be good deep dives on AgentKit in the coming days from those who are more technical than me, but for now, it looks like agent creation is entering its vibe coding era.
In case it already wasn’t clear, OpenAI owns the tech culture zeitgeist. The energy here at the event venue in Fort Mason, San Francisco feels like an early Facebook developer conference or, dare I say, Macworld. OpenAI is on top of the world. The question now is if it can stay there.
Scenes from DevDay.
Exec Q&A
Below are the most interesting excerpts from the hour-long, post-keynote media Q&A that I attended with CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, VP of ChatGPT Nick Turley, and COO Brad Lightcap:
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