OpenAI Released Apps that Work Inside ChatGPT and an SDK [Video]
- OpenAI has released an app feature that integrates popular apps like Coursera, Canva, and Expedia into ChatGPT, allowing users to access these tools directly within the chat interface.
- The company is also launching an open-source Apps SDK later this year, which will enable developers to build and add their own apps to ChatGPT, starting with a preview mode.
- More than 20 new apps are expected to be launched in the coming months, including Khan Academy, Instacart, and Uber, as part of OpenAI’s efforts to expand its ecosystem.
- OpenAI has also introduced AgentKit, a toolkit for building AI agents, which includes ChatKit, a simple embeddable chat interface, and tools for measuring agent performance.
- The company is continuing to improve its AI capabilities with the general availability of Codex, API updates like GPT-5 Pro and Sora 2 in preview, and new admin tools for monitoring and analytics dashboards.
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OpenAI issued an app feature yesterday that includes, as initial pilots, Coursera, Canva, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, Zillow, and Booking.com, which will be integrated into ChatGPT.
Developers will be able to start building and adding apps “later this year” with an open-source Apps SDK, initially as a preview mode. This framework is built on the MCP (Model Context Protocol), an open standard that enables ChatGPT to connect to external tools and data.
Apps expected soon include Khan Academy, Instacart, OpenTable, DoorDash, Peloton, Uber, TripAdvisor, TheFork, Thumbtack, Target, and AllTrails.
In the ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans, the apps will also be launched “later this year,” according to the company.
These apps will be supported by a new Agentic Commerce Protocol, an open standard that enables instant checkout in ChatGPT.
Yesterday, during the same Dev Day event, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced AgentKit, a toolkit for building blocks of AI agents.
AgentKit includes ChatKit, a simple embeddable chat interface for developers, along with tools to measure agents’ performance and other features.
Christina Huang, an OpenAI engineer, built an entire AI workflow and two AI agents live onstage in under eight minutes, as shown in the video below.
OpenAI announced the general availability of Codex, along with a Slack integration, an SDK, and new admin tools for monitoring and analytics dashboards.
Finally, the San Francisco-based lab introduced API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in preview, and gpt-realtime-mini, a voice model that is 70% cheaper than gpt-realtime.