OpenAI is busy rolling out a suite of office productivity features on ChatGPT that puts it in direct competition with its main investor and partner, Microsoft, and key rival, Google. Since early June, OpenAI has buffed up ChatGPT to do office work: Record Mode: Record and transcribe any meeting, brainstorming session or voice note. ChatGPT will pull out key points and turn them into follow-ups, plans and code. Enhanced Projects: Projects now have deep research, voice, improved memory, file-uploading capability and model selection. Advanced Voice: Voice now offers live translation and smoother interaction. Connectors: ChatGPT can pull data from Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Dropbox and more. Updated Canvas: The side-by-side editing capability can now export documents in PDF, docx or markdown formats. AI-native workflows are the future. Read.ai, Otter.ai and Microsoft Copilot are “now in ChatGPT’s competitive crosshairs. The difference? ChatGPT isn’t just automating tasks; it’s orchestrating them, end-to-end, with context and language-level intelligence.” We’re seeing the beginning of the ‘invisible app era’ where productivity doesn’t live in documents; it lives in dynamic, AI-mediated interactions.