OpenAI’s plan to make ChatGPT the ‘everything app’ has never been more clear [Video]

OpenAI is making major moves as it sets the table for 2025.

To the casual observer, OpenAI has spent the past week flooding the tech world with announcements and rollouts — not all of which gel into any sort of clear product agenda.

It’s all part of a holiday-timed event called “12 Days of OpenAI,” a plan to ship a product or feature every day for 12 days marketed by the AI giant as bold and ambitious, even though some of the announcements, like a folder system for organizing your ChatGPT conversations, might seem like filler.

But if you step back and look at the sum of its parts, you can see that OpenAI is deliberately laying a roadmap for ChatGPT to become the next “everything app.”

The term comes from Elon Musk when talking about transforming X, into “a single application that encompasses everything,” as he told employees in a leaked 2023 all-hands meeting. “You can do payments, messages, video, …