The largest thing OpenAI shipped at DevDay was not a model. It was a place to keep work. ChatGPT Space is a home for pages, uploaded files and other material inside ChatGPT, and OpenAI’s own documentation says it replaces the Library for accounts that get it. Projects stay separate, for project chats, files and instructions.
Inside a space sit Pages: editable documents that a team and its assistants work on together. Several people can edit the same page, and each of them can ask their own ChatGPT to change it. A page can hold charts, trackers and interactive tools that ChatGPT builds, and comments can be attached to a specific passage.
What is actually available
Creating and editing require Pro, Business or Enterprise. On the web and in the desktop app you can create and edit pages; on mobile you can find, read, share and navigate between pages and subpages, but not edit them. OpenAI says Space is coming later for Business and Enterprise workspaces with data residency in Canada or the United Arab Emirates.
Two advertised features are not in the launch build. “Slides and Sheets are coming soon”, the documentation says, and automatic page updates through the Keep updated feature are “not available at launch”. The collaborative slides announced in the keynote — multiple teammates and agents editing one deck, exporting to PowerPoint or Google Slides with formatting intact — are described as arriving in the coming weeks.
Around Pages, OpenAI added the rest of a workplace stack. Teams can be created inside ChatGPT to share pages, slides, plugins and spreadsheets. Recurring work such as a weekly project update can be delegated to a team task that runs on a schedule or fires on an event like a new email or Slack message. @ChatGPT can be mentioned in a Slack channel or a Microsoft Teams thread, where teammates can contribute without holding an individual licence — a detail that matters for seat-count economics.
The Meetings plugin, and the sentence worth reading twice
A Meetings plugin, in beta on the macOS desktop app for Pro and Business accounts, takes notes from calls and in-person conversations without a bot joining, and files a personalised summary with action items into Space. Audio is streamed to OpenAI, and the documentation says it is deleted from the Mac and from OpenAI’s servers once the notes are ready and cannot be replayed.
The consent language is unusually direct. OpenAI tells users to inform everyone present and obtain consent before starting, then adds: the consent reminder in the app “is visible to you. It does not notify other participants or obtain their consent for you”. In two-party consent jurisdictions, that places the legal exposure squarely on the user.
Why this is aimed at Microsoft
Documents, shared spaces, presentations, spreadsheets, meeting notes and chat integration is a list, and it is Microsoft 365’s list. Microsoft split Copilot into three surfaces last week and moved agent work onto metered billing; OpenAI’s answer is to put the documents where the assistant already is, rather than putting an assistant into the documents.
The company is not shy about the reach behind it. In the DevDay recap OpenAI describes ChatGPT as a shared surface reaching “our collective 1.2B weekly users”.
What to watch
The honest test is whether Sheets and the Keep updated feature arrive, and when. A document suite without a spreadsheet is not a document suite, and an OpenAI page that does not refresh itself is a Google Doc with a better assistant attached. The second thing to watch is enterprise procurement: @ChatGPT in Teams lets unlicensed colleagues use the product inside Microsoft’s own workspace, and Microsoft has levers it has not yet pulled.
