OpenAI’s AI Super App Gambit

OpenAI is betting big on turning ChatGPT into a “super app” — a personal AI assistant that handles everything from dinner reservations to expense reports, powered by Codex but hidden behind natural language. Led by Thibault Sottiaux, who’s shifting focus from developers to the nearly billion weekly ChatGPT users, the company is shutting down projects like Sora and reshuffling leadership to fuel growth ahead of its IPO and compete with Google and Anthropic. With phased updates, Visa integrations, and calendar/email syncs already in place, the super app is quietly coming together — and Sottiaux admits it’s “incredibly exciting and mildly terrifying.” Support the show:Get a discount at https://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/1baf2a7a1d46167e