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OpenAI Declares Chat Dead, Wants ChatGPT to Run Your Entire Life

OpenAI has declared "chat is dead" and is overhauling ChatGPT into a full-scale "superapp" that goes beyond question-answering to autonomously handle tasks across users' personal and professional lives. The redesigned platform will bundle coding tools, AI agents, and integrations with partners like Canva and Booking, with a revamped web and mobile interface rolling out in the coming weeks. Chief product officer Thibault Sottiaux envisions the end goal as a personal agent capable of assisting users across all aspects of their lives.

A senior OpenAI employee has told the Financial Times that 'chat is dead.' Not quietly retired. Dead. The company is done building tools that answer questions and is now squarely focused on agents that go off and do things without you holding their hand the whole time.

This is the framing behind what OpenAI is calling ChatGPT's most significant redesign since the product launched in 2022. The plan is to transform it into a 'superapp' combining coding tools, AI agents, and third-party integrations with partners like Canva and Booking.com.

Chief product officer Thibault Sottiaux spelled out the vision to 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.' The FT's reporting draws on interviews with over a dozen current and former OpenAI staff, and the company has separately confirmed it is working on a super app.

Practically speaking, a redesigned web and mobile interface is expected within weeks. Initially it will surface features more aggressively, nudging users toward coding assistants, image generation, and partner integrations. The longer-term idea is that the nudging becomes unnecessary once the models get good enough at working out what you actually want.

On the organisational side, the ChatGPT and Codex product teams have already been merged under Sottiaux, which suggests OpenAI is getting serious about treating this as one unified product rather than a collection of overlapping experiments.

Whether 'chat is dead' turns out to be a sharp strategic insight or just confident-sounding internal positioning remains to be seen. The gap between 'personal agent for everything in your life' and 'occasionally gets the Canva export right' is still fairly wide.