OpenAI Plans Launch of Desktop 'Superapp'

joshuark shares a report from Neowin: OpenAI is planning to combine its Atlas web browser, ChatGPT app, and Codex coding app 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."

Bloat

[liqu1d]

Super apps tend to be shit at a lot of things at once. Perhaps this will be the one to break the trend.

Re:

[machineghost]

And it will help you (illegally) both surveil US citizens, and mass murder citizens of other countries!

Re: Bloat

[ToasterMonkey]

These apps are barely differentiated. It's sort of like Microsoft combining notepad and wordpad into a new notepad with markdown support, for example.

If you think that's a mistake, then in what ways should these three apps be more specialized? Do you even know what they are?

Oh boy

[RitchCraft]

SuperSlop 1.0 coming your way!

Translation

[fahrbot-bot]

By taking this move, the AI company aims to streamline the user experience and reduce fragmentation.

Increase our data capture.

Re: SuperShit all-in-one apps have a history of

[ToasterMonkey]

Have you used a single one of the "bloated" apps mentioned? They're all the same chat style interface. All three of them do tabs slightly differently. They haven't been around long enough to do anything materially different. Just look at still screenshots and you can see that much.

For fucks sake, have you even used Notes? Do you see a custom PKI authentication system in ChatGPT anywhere? Some kind of fancy framework you can publish custom apps to like Domino?

I can sadly say I have at least touched Notes, in

This seems like a good thing

[taustin]

If they combine all their crap into one app, then I only need to ignore one thing.

Super, Just Super (Apologies to Supercar)

[crunchy_one]

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

[jythie]

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!

Re:

[thesjaakspoiler]

Kids running OpenAI were in their diapers when Emacs was a thing.

Translation: just a shitty web browser

[ebunga]

And in the web browser, they implemented another web browser.

Oh Goody - thats a time saver

[Growlley]

3 bloated pos shit I can avoid at one go.

openclaw, is that you?

[ZipNada]

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.

One app ...

[PPH]

... to rule them all,
one app to find them,
One app to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.

Net..

[PixetaledPikachu]

Add an email client and call it something like Netscape

Hmm...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

And here I thought that 'AI' was supposed to be leading to a flowering of specialized-for-purpose software that would previously have been infeasible to build due to resource constraints; but one of the most heavily capitalized outfits in the bubble can't cope with a chromium reskin and a couple of electron apps?