Catenaa, Sunday, June 07, 2026- OpenAI is preparing for a major platform overhaul, transforming ChatGPT into a Superapp ahead of the IPO.
The company intends to transform the chatbot into a “superapp” that combines coding tools and AI agents, adding products that executives believe will generate more revenue.
The changes are part of a broader reorganisation at OpenAI as the San Francisco-based company shifts resources into trying to win lucrative business customers and compete more fiercely with rival Anthropic, The Financial Times reported.
OpenAI faces growing pressure to increase revenue and forge a path to profitability as it prepares for an initial public offering.
The strategy marks a departure for a company, led by chief executive Sam Altman, that became the face of the AI boom and took the technology mainstream when it unveiled ChatGPT in 2022.
The changes, which will give greater prominence and resources to OpenAI’s coding product Codex, reflect a growing conviction within the company that the future of AI lies not in chatbots that answer questions but in agents that perform tasks for users.
“Chat is dead,” one senior OpenAI employee told The Financial Times. OpenAI executives increasingly view ChatGPT, which has attracted nearly 1bn users since its launch, as a gateway to introduce users to higher-value products.
The majority of consumers use the chatbot for free. The company is embarking on the changes amid a belief that the advent of AI agents, which can perform multiple tasks for users from booking travel to organising calendars, will be a more valuable product than the chatbot.
At the same time, products such as Codex are able to write code and create software based on simple instructions from users.
The overhaul, which is set to begin rolling out in the coming weeks, will initially appear as changes to ChatGPT’s website and mobile apps, encouraging customers to use coding, image-generation and apps from external partners.
The changes underline how OpenAI’s strategy is moving closer to that of Anthropic, whose focus on developing products for businesses has stoked its blistering growth and will be at the heart of its pitch to investors in an IPO this year.
Outlining the changes, Thibault Sottiaux, who previously ran Codex and now leads all of OpenAI’s core product and platform, told the FT: “It will transcend the actual surface . . . what we’re building towards is where you have your own personal agent that is capable of helping you . . . across everything in your life, be it personally or at work.” He added: “You can connect through it on your mobile, desktop or web. When you’re in the car, you can talk to it.”
The majority of Codex users pay for the service, according to people familiar with the matter, while the 2 million businesses that use OpenAI’s products account for roughly 40 per cent of its revenue.
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