OpenAI is also adding a meeting plugin that can capture notes, produce summaries and identify action items before placing the results into a Space. The company says the audio is deleted once those notes have been generated.
The meeting feature will initially be available in the macOS desktop app for Pro and Business customers, with Enterprise support coming later.
The workplace push also extends ChatGPT into Slack and Microsoft Teams for Business and Enterprise customers. Users will be able to mention @ChatGPT in channels, direct messages and threads, including for tasks such as generating slides from a conversation.
With the necessary permission, ChatGPT can also work with tools that are already connected inside those platforms.
OpenAI is pairing those collaboration features with a larger overhaul of its plugin system. Developers can now give plugins a dedicated location in the ChatGPT sidebar rather than limiting them to background connections or conversation-level interactions.
The new plugin extensions can include interactive panels, giving users a way to work directly with a third-party product while continuing a ChatGPT conversation. Developers can also build viewers for the file types their applications support.
OpenAI is adding a Plugin Creator intended to make plugin development easier, alongside a redesigned submission process for its plugin directory. The company says the new flow should give developers clearer feedback.
Plugin discovery is changing as well. OpenAI says it has improved how plugins are ranked and recommended both inside the directory and when they are surfaced during conversations.
Users still control access on a plugin-by-plugin basis. Selecting a plugin does not automatically grant it permission to connected data, and users can approve the requested access individually.
ChatGPT Sites, which let users build lightweight websites with ChatGPT, can also host plugins. That means coworkers could use the same shared app experience while continuing to rely on their own account connections and permissions.
OpenAI is also working on support for the proposed MCP Events specification. That capability would allow activity in a connected app to trigger a plugin automation without requiring a new request from the user inside ChatGPT.
That event-driven functionality is still being added, rather than presented as a completed feature. OpenAI says it is also simplifying how automations are created and managed.
The same Dev Day lineup includes Pages, which lets users create and share documents containing text, charts, images and visualizations. Collaborative slides that can be exported to PowerPoint and Google Slides are expected in the coming weeks, while shareable profiles will let users showcase web apps and plugins.
OpenAI is positioning these releases as a way to make ChatGPT a more central part of daily work. Shared files, meetings, third-party tools and generated documents can increasingly live in the same environment instead of being scattered across separate services.
For developers, the more significant change is how much room plugins now have inside ChatGPT. Dedicated sidebar spaces, interactive controls and file viewers make them feel closer to embedded applications than simple integrations.
For businesses, that also makes permissions and data handling more important. OpenAI says its Private Intelligence system is intended to help protect business data, while plugin permissions remain under user or administrator control.
This analysis is based on reporting from BigGo Finance.
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This article was generated with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy and quality.
