OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex and its Atlas web browser into a desktop “super app”

OpenAI is planning unify ChatGPT, the Codex app and your Atlas web browser into one “super app” for computer for simplify the experience of the user and reduce fragmentation.

According to The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI managers hope that the unification of their products into a single application will allow them optimize your resources y compete further with companies like Anthropic.

This change will be supervised by the company’s head of Applications, Fidji Simo, who will focus on helping the sales team market this new application and who will have the help of the president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, according to what a company spokesperson told the media.

“Companies go through exploration phases and reorientation phases; both are crucial. But when new bets start to pay off, as we are seeing now with Codex, it is essential to double down and avoid distractions,” Simo posted on the X social network.

Companies go through phases of exploration and phases of refocus; both are critical. But when new bets start to work, like we’re seeing now with Codex, it’s very important to double down on them and avoid distractions. Really glad we’re seizing this moment. https://t.co/FH85IvW6CN

— Fidji Simo (@fidjissimo) March 19, 2026

According to OpenAI, this “super app” will focus on building agentic AI capabilities so that AI systems can work autonomously to perform tasks such as writing ‘software’ or analyzing data.

Currently, OpenAI has the AI ​​model ChatGPT since 2022, one of the most popular in the sector, whose latest update arrived this week with the GPT-5.4 mini and nano versions.

On the other hand, the company presented Codex last May as a cloud-based software engineering agent for working on tasks in parallel, powered by the codex-1 model. Lastly, OpenAI also entered the web browser market with ChatGPT Atlaswhich brings the experience of the popular ‘chatbot’ to internet browsing to compete with Google.