OpenAI's ChatGPT Space Takes Aim at Google Workspace

OpenAI used its fourth annual DevDay to launch ChatGPT Space, a collaborative workspace with AI-generated documents and presentations that puts the company in direct competition with Google Workspace — even if CEO Sam Altman declined to frame it that way.

Space, Pages, and collaborative slides are available starting today for Pro, Business, and Enterprise users on the desktop app and the web. Mobile access, OpenAI said, is on the way.

A new home for team collaboration

ChatGPT Space is "a new home for your team to collaborate with AI to get work done," OpenAI said in a blog post announcing the release. Users can work with ChatGPT, with teammates, and with a new agentic feature called Dots — agents that operate inside the shared workspace rather than as separate tools.

Pages and collaborative slides, both announced today, are "built for human and agent collaboration," OpenAI said. Pages lets users create documents with ChatGPT's generative abilities, including on-page research, graphics, and images. Slides does the same for presentations.

The slides feature works much like Google Slides: multiple users — and agents — can edit simultaneously, design conversationally, or import their own templates. Users can present directly from ChatGPT or export slides to PowerPoint or Google, reportedly without disrupting formatting. Pages is available now; slides arrives in the next few weeks.

During a demo of Pages, which resembles a Notion landing page, an OpenAI representative tagged her Dot directly in comments in the workspace, assigned it feedback from a coworker, and iterated on the project — all in one place.

An OpenAI representative explained the logic in an email: "Space is built for people and AI to work on the same content together. Pages are a format native to ChatGPT that AI can read and create, and that teammates can edit together in real time. Today, people develop ideas in ChatGPT, move the work elsewhere to share it, then bring feedback back to ChatGPT. Space brings that process together so people can create, share, and keep working with your team and ChatGPT in one place."

During the keynote, Altman presented Space, Pages, slides, and Dots as pieces of a new system. He did not call it a Workspace competitor.

Why this matters

The stakes are straightforward. Google Workspace generated significant recurring revenue for Alphabet by embedding productivity tools into daily corporate workflows. If OpenAI can keep users inside ChatGPT from idea generation through document creation, sharing, and iteration, it captures that same workflow — and the subscription revenue attached to it. Last year, OpenAI was reportedly exploring features that would turn ChatGPT into more of a productivity suite, including a collaborative document editor similar to Google Docs.

Anthropic got there first

OpenAI is not the first mover here. Anthropic recently launched Claude Docs as part of its Claude Cowork consolidation, which also absorbed Claude Design and Slides. For both ChatGPT and Claude, document and slide creation now live inside a central agentic home base rather than in disparate tools.

Anthropic absorbed Cowork back into Claude to create a one-stop shop for users' agentic needs. OpenAI's new features follow the same pattern, though the company remains hesitant to fully claim any productivity suite ambitions.

The path to this point was not linear. OpenAI launched and then sunset its consumer video app Sora, while Anthropic dominated in enterprise revenue over the same period. But OpenAI took the hint with a few key releases over the last six months. ChatGPT Work, launched in July as an answer to Claude Cowork, splices out non-coding-related tasks to give other types of workers an agentic boost.

Private Intelligence targets the enterprise bottleneck

The second major announcement of DevDay addresses what remains one of the primary impediments to business AI adoption: data security. Enterprise clients with clear AI use cases still balk at exposing sensitive data to agents or to the companies behind frontier models.

Private Intelligence is a data access approval layer designed to give enterprise customers "greater confidence that their data is protected," OpenAI said.

"Zero Data Retention with Private Safety Processing enables automated safety reviews without giving OpenAI personnel access to the underlying content," the company explained. OpenAI added that "our preview of Private Inference, coming this fall, combines confidential computing with strict, verifiable controls." The company did not offer further detail on the distinction between Intelligence and Inference.

The naming echoes Apple's Private Cloud Compute, and the implication is clear: businesses could access the full power of OpenAI's frontier models without sacrificing security. In consumer AI, that trade-off has so far run in one direction — getting better results from an assistant, as with Gemini's Personal Intelligence, tends to require giving up more personal information to the model. If OpenAI can break that trade-off for enterprises, it removes a major objection from the exact customer segment where Anthropic has been winning.

The consolidation race

The parallel moves by OpenAI and Anthropic point to the same conclusion: the standalone chatbot is dissolving into a full work environment. Both companies have concluded that users will not keep shuttling between a chat window and separate productivity tools. Instead, the chatbot becomes the doorway to a suite where human teammates and agents collaborate on the same content.

For OpenAI, the question is execution. Anthropic demonstrated the consolidation model first with Claude Cowork and Claude Docs, and it has led in enterprise revenue. OpenAI now has the feature set — Space, Pages, slides, Dots, ChatGPT Work — but has stopped short of calling it a productivity suite. With slides shipping in the coming weeks and Private Inference previewing this fall, the next few months will show whether OpenAI can convert its consumer-scale ChatGPT user base into enterprise workspace customers, or whether Google and Anthropic hold their ground.