OpenAI plans the biggest revamp of ChatGPT since its launch: it will be launched in a few weeks

OpenAI will completely renew ChatGPT to offer a new experience to users that, instead of being focused on the conversation with AI, encourage the use of programming tools, image generation and third-party applications.

According to a report by The Financial Times, the ‘super app’, named after OpenAI itself, will receive a total renovation in the coming weeks which will be applied first in ‘apps’ for mobile phones and the web.

The intention of the creators of ChatGPT is to transform the ‘chatbot’ into a ‘super application’ that combine both AI agents and programming toolsredirecting resources toward products that OpenAI executives understand will generate more revenue.

A renewal that is part of a broader reorganization of OpenAI, and that is intended to attract the attention of the general public as well as competing more strongly against its rival Anthropicwhich has been able to turn its Claude Code programming tool into a business favorite, as more than a dozen former and current employees point out to the aforementioned media.

From the executives’ perspective, ChatGPT is seen as the way to introduce the chat app’s almost 900 million weekly users to higher-value products, and thus reduce the number of those who only use the application for free.

One of OpenAI’s senior employees claims that “chat is dead”. What OpenAI seeks with this is for ChatGPT to go from being a simple conversational ‘chatbot’, to which millions of users have become accustomed, to a platform where agents execute complex tasksimporting the technology and philosophy of its code tool, Codex.

The democratization of programming is one of the biggest challenges which OpenAI will face with the idea of ​​​​stopping Anthropic and its renowned programming tool Claude Code.

Thibault Sottiaux, who previously led Codex and now leads the entire OpenAI core product and platform, told The Financial Times that “what we are building is a point where you will have your own personal agent capable of helping you in all aspects of lifewhether personally or at work.

Sottiaux has been in charge of focusing Codex from a simple programming API to an advanced software agent. And the main idea with the ChatGPT renewal is that the user can connect with their AI agent on mobile, desktop or web, just like When you are driving you will have the possibility to start a conversation to make a hotel reservation or plan a trip.

OpenAI seeks to go from 40 percent of revenue, represented by the two million companies that currently use its products, to 50 percent by the end of the year. And the way to do this is transfer the success that Codex has broughtas a desktop app that multiplied its active users by six, to the core of the ChatGPT experience, especially since the majority of users who use it pay for the service.

OpenAI will redesign the ChatGPT interface by adding new prompts and features that will direct users to coding tools and third-party apps such as Canva and Booking.com, The Financial Times said, citing people familiar with the plans.