OpenAI 推出近似 ChatGPT 办公套件的新功能，直面微软竞争

OpenAI 从一开始就是微软的紧密合作伙伴，但这家 AI 实验室正日益瞄准微软的核心业务——办公软件——推出了一系列与微软办公套件高度相似的新功能。

周二在旧金山举行的 DevDay 开发者大会上，OpenAI 宣布了多项专为办公室员工设计的 ChatGPT 新功能。

其中最值得关注的是名为 Space 的功能。这是 ChatGPT 内部的共享工作区，同事可以在其中与聊天机器人协作，也可以与各自的 Dots 协作。Dots 是 OpenAI 最新推出的 AI Agent 人格，能够代表用户执行任务；用户可借助它们处理各类工作任务。

“你的页面和文件都集中存放在 Space 中，就像存放在一个网盘里一样，”CEO Sam Altman 在周二的演示中表示。“但 Space 是有生命力的。”Altman 表示，用户可以向某个页面下达具体指令，例如要求其查看团队频道，并根据发现的信息更新该页面。

OpenAI 还发布了 Pages，一款配套的文字处理工具。该公司将其称为“为人类与 Agent 协作打造的一种新型文档”。它看起来是 OpenAI 对 Google Docs 和 Microsoft Word 的回应。OpenAI 表示，用户可以在其中“写作、研究、生成图表、创建图像或将信息可视化”。

OpenAI 还公布了对标 PowerPoint 的产品，即所谓的协作幻灯片（collaborative slides）。用户只需在 ChatGPT 中通过对话描述需求，即可创建这些幻灯片。幻灯片生成后，多名员工和 Agent 可以在其中共同工作，并能够留下评论和进行编辑。OpenAI 一名代表表示，Slides 尚未正式可用，但将在未来几周内向用户陆续推出。

随着 OpenAI 逐步进入微软的业务领域，微软以及 Salesforce 等其他软件公司也正忙于变得更像 OpenAI。过去一年间，两家公司都发布了大量 AI 产品，软件行业正努力跟上这一不断变化的市场格局。

UPDATE 9 月 29 日，周二：本文已更新，以澄清 Slides 的发布时间表。

OpenAI has been a close partner of Microsoft from the jump, but the AI lab is increasingly going after the company’s bread and butter, workplace software, with new features that closely resemble an office software suite like Microsoft’s.

At its DevDay developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI announced several new ChatGPT features designed for office workers.

Most notably, OpenAI launched a feature called Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT where co-workers can collaborate with the chatbot and with their own Dots, OpenAI’s newly launched AI agent personas (that can carry out tasks on a user’s behalf), on a range of work tasks.

“Your pages and files all live together in Space, like they would in a drive,” said CEO Sam Altman during Tuesday’s presentation. “But spaces feel alive.” Altman said users can give a page specific instructions, such as checking a team channel and updating the page with what it finds.

OpenAI also launched Pages, a companion word processor that the company describes as “a new type of document, built for human and agent collaboration.” It appears to be OpenAI’s answer to Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Users can “write, research, generate charts, create images, or visualize information” in it, OpenAI says.

OpenAI has also announced its answer to PowerPoint with what it calls collaborative slides. These slides can be created by merely talking about them within ChatGPT. Once the slides are generated, multiple workers and agents can work together within them and will have the ability to leave comments and edit them. Slides isn’t available quite yet but will roll out to users in the coming weeks, an OpenAI representative said.

As OpenAI edges into Microsoft’s territory, Microsoft and other software companies like Salesforce are busy trying to become more like OpenAI. Over the past year, both companies have released a slew of AI products as the software industry attempts to keep up with the shifting landscape.

UPDATE Tuesday Sept. 29: This story was updated to clarify the release timeline for Slides.