"With the new option, unveiled Monday during OpenAI's annual developers event, a ChatGPT user can ask to create a playlist for the weekend and the app will connect with Spotify to make suggestions. Alternatively, a user can look up a three-bedroom home in a specific neighborhood on Zillow, without leaving the ChatGPT app. The feature, which OpenAI calls talking to apps, requires users to sign in to the apps the first time."
"We hope this will be a big deal for helping developers rapidly scale products, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said in a keynote address at the event in San Francisco. The event caps off a frenzied few weeks for the company. OpenAI completed a secondary share sale that propelled it to become the most valuable startup in the world. It introduced several notable features and products, including a social video app called Sora that quickly rose to the top of Apple's App Store."
"OpenAI now has more than 800 million weekly ChatGPT users, Altman said on Monday. The service's rapid growth has helped bolster OpenAI's revenue. In September, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said at a conference that OpenAI was on track to generate $13 billion in revenue this year, up from $4 billion in 2024. Still, the AI developer has remained unprofitable due to billions of dollars in annual computing and research costs, to say nothing of OpenAI's recent spending spree on chips and data centers."
OpenAI launched a feature allowing ChatGPT users to connect with third-party apps inside the chatbot to carry out tasks. Users can ask ChatGPT to create a playlist and have it connect with Spotify, or search Zillow for a three-bedroom home without leaving the app. The feature, called talking to apps, requires users to sign in to connected apps once. Sam Altman said the capability should help developers rapidly scale products. OpenAI completed a secondary share sale, announced infrastructure deals with Nvidia and AMD, and reported more than 800 million weekly ChatGPT users. The company projects $13 billion revenue this year but remains unprofitable due to heavy computing, research, and data-center spending while appealing to businesses and developers.
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