“Older people use ChatGPT as a replacement for Google, people in their 20s and 30s use it as a life advisor, but students use it as a computing environment. » This is how the use of OpenAI’s services was summarized by its founder Sam Altman, at the Sequoia Capital fund conference in May. The phrase points to the fact that OpenAI dreams of making ChatGPT a standalone computing environment.
Can the service really be equivalent to Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android on smartphones, or Windows or MacOS on computers? There are limits to the parallel, of course. Mr. Altman himself admits that the image of his generation is a “simplification”. And the point is partly marketing. But this illustrates the fact that OpenAI has much broader ambitions for ChatGPT than the simple chatbots, or conversational robots, we asked questions about.
OpenAI hopes to offer a gateway to the Web, or even to all digital services, particularly through ChatGPT, which has 800 million weekly users and is targeting 2 billion users by 2029, according to Information. In October, the company launched its own Internet browser, a sort of competitor to Google Chrome and Firefox, with ChatGPT integrated. Most importantly, OpenAI announced the possibility for all publishers of third-party applications and services to make them available in ChatGPT. Therefore, users can access through the services Spotify (music), Expedia (travel), Booking (hotel reservations), TheFork (restaurant reservations), TripAdvisor (tour guides), Instacart (online shopping) or Uber (VTC) and everyone who joins these first partners.
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This system is reminiscent of “app stores”, the app stores that have become a force in Apple and Google’s mobile environments… especially since OpenAI, at the same time, allows purchasing products in one click in ChatGPT, charging commissions along the way, like app stores and marketplaces like Amazon.
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