OpenAI is building a new collaboration tool inside ChatGPT. Similiar to Canvas, it’s designed to let people co-edit documents, chat about them in real time, and create a full workspace experience - all within ChatGPT.
This isn't just another plugin or feature. It’s a direct move into productivity territory, where tools like Google Docs and Microsoft Office have dominated for years. Reports say this feature has been in development for over a year, though it's still in internal testing.
No official launch date. But the intention is clear: OpenAI is no longer content with just being the model behind someone else’s products.
What OpenAI Is Saying
OpenAI hasn’t publicly commented yet. The news comes from internal sources reported by The Information, who describe a collaborative editing space that blends real-time chat, file handling, and AI-assisted work - all inside ChatGPT.
This builds on ChatGPT’s existing features: file uploads, code execution, memory, and team plans. Adding a workspace layer on top? That’s the next step.
What That Means (In Human Words)
OpenAI doesn’t want to be your assistant.
It wants to be your office.
Instead of bouncing between Word, Slack, Zoom, Notion, and Copilot - this move signals a future where one AI-native platform handles it all. Type a prompt, edit with your team, discuss it with the bot, and export the outcome.
It’s not about replacing tools. It’s about replacing tool overload.
If it works, ChatGPT could become the place where people actually do the work - not just ask for help doing it.
Let’s Connect the Dots
Connecting the dots in this case is easy.
They have no historical empire like Google or Microsoft, and it looks like they don’t want just an integration - even though they have it. They want to create their legacy starting today by doing what they believe they do best: leading AI bots.
And the logic of their plan is to centralise everything around there Ai bot.
Yes, on the surface it doesn’t look that different from Google putting Gemini all over or Microsoft putting Copilot everywhere.
But it is.
While Google and Microsoft use their legacy software to be the anchor - the centralised place for use - OpenAI is changing the game.
The user already knows OpenAI as a bot.
So everything will be centralized based on that bot.
For them, it’s easy.
No legacy. Nothing to build up on.
And here, that becomes their strength.
Bottom Line
🧠 Product: Workspace-style collaboration inside ChatGPT
📍 Internal name: Canvas
🛠️ Status: In testing
📅 Launch: No public timeline yet
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Let’s not sugar-coat this.
OpenAI just made a power move.
It’s still smiling politely at Microsoft, still using Azure, still partnering on enterprise deals.
But behind the scenes, it’s building something that could directly replace Word, Docs, Slack - or all of them at once.
This isn’t betrayal.
This is what ambition looks like.
For years, AI has been treated like a feature you bolt onto old software.
But OpenAI is flipping that - building software around AI instead.
And that’s the real threat.
Not because it’s better (yet), but because it’s built differently.
If ChatGPT becomes your workspace, it doesn’t just replace your tools.
It rewrites how you work.
Microsoft already announced that they’re working on an LLM of their own.
So this tension? It’s expected.
We see this as a new way of working.
And if we throw into the mix the Jony Ive acquisition and that mysterious AI device no one’s seen yet - well, this could all feed into a future where work-from-everywhere actually means something.
Are we dreaming?
Could be.
Only time will tell.
