OpenAI Plans Launch of Desktop 'Superapp'
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/03/20/1711251/openai-plans-launch-of-desktop-superapp
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> OpenAI is [2]planning to combine its Atlas web browser, ChatGPT app, and Codex coding app [3]into a singular desktop "superapp ." CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, said the company was doubling down on its successful products. By taking this move, the AI company aims to streamline the user experience and reduce fragmentation. Simo said in an internal memo: "We realized we were spreading our efforts across too many apps and stacks, and that we need to simplify our efforts. That fragmentation has been slowing us down and making it harder to hit the quality bar we want."
[1] https://slashdot.org/~joshuark
[2] https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-plans-launch-of-desktop-superapp-to-refocus-simplify-user-experience-9e19931d
[3] https://www.neowin.net/news/openai-to-merge-atlas-browser-chatgpt-and-codex-into-a-single-desktop-super-app/
Oh boy (Score:2)
SuperSlop 1.0 coming your way!
Translation (Score:4, Insightful)
> By taking this move, the AI company aims to streamline the user experience and reduce fragmentation.
Increase our data capture.
This seems like a good thing (Score:2)
If they combine all their crap into one app, then I only need to ignore one thing.
Super, Just Super (Apologies to Supercar) (Score:2)
Superapp... Superapp...
With beauty and grace,
fast as can be
watch it flying through the air.
It travels in space,
or under the sea,
and it can journey anywhere.
Superapp... Superapp...
It travels on land,
or roams the skies,
through the heavens' mighty rage
It's Mercury-manned,
and everyone cries,
"it's the marvel of the age!"
Superapp... Superapp... SUPERAPP!
Return of Emacs (Score:2)
So.. i guess they thought to themselves.. 'hey, remember that text editor that morphed into an entire operating system? Yeah, lets do that, with AI!
Translation: just a shitty web browser (Score:2)
And in the web browser, they implemented another web browser.
Oh Goody - thats a time saver (Score:2)
3 bloated pos shit I can avoid at one go.
openclaw, is that you? (Score:2)
OpenAI says they want to ' focus on creating so-called “agentic” AI capabilities within the new superapp, in which artificial-intelligence systems can work autonomously on a user’s computer to carry out a variety of tasks'. It sounds suspiciously like OpenClaw (https://openclaw.ai/).
No surprise there. OpenAi recently acquihired the creator of OpenClaw.
Bloat (Score:3)
Super apps tend to be shit at a lot of things at once. Perhaps this will be the one to break the trend.