ChatGPT may beat X in the race to become an “everything app.” From organizing your work schedule to offering personal assistance and answering your queries — even by phone if you don’t have internet — OpenAI is creating a unified experience so that users can access a variety of services without ever leaving the ChatGPT app. But it’s about more than convenience — features like Search, Canvas, and Advanced Voice Mode make it clear that OpenAI is laying the groundwork to make ChatGPT as indispensable as your phone, Mashable reports.

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Guess who did it first: China’s WeChat already implemented the concept of the “everything app,” while Elon Musk has had similar plans for X. But it’s Apple that set the gold standard, creating a seamless system where all of its services work together across all its products. With ChatGPT’s integration on iPhones as part of Apple’s AI-centric iOS 18, OpenAI seems to be borrowing from Apple’s playbook by making ChatGPT ” frictionless and easy to use ” in the realm of lifestyle tech

The real game changer will be ChatGPT’s agents, expected to roll out in 2025. These agents will be capable of performing tasks on behalf of users, such as booking flights, writing code, and browsing the web — bringing us closer to the vision of the AGI. Some critics point out that generative AI still faces issues like “ hallucination, misinformation, defamation, and copyright,” but beta versions of AGI like Google’s Mariner are already dipping their toes into the market.

It’s more than just bells and whistles: These developments are part of a grander plan to make ChatGPT indispensable in both our work and personal lives. With over 10 mn users already subscribing to ChatGPT Plus and OpenAI projecting USD 100 bn in revenue by 2029, the company’s financial success depends heavily on making ChatGPT as valuable as possible to users — by turning it into a subscription-based tool they can’t live without.

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