OpenAI Is Merging ChatGPT, Codex, and Its Browser Into One App

OpenAI is planning to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser tool into a single desktop app. Instead of having all these separate interfaces, the plan is to just give you one place to do the chat, the coding, and the web search. Engineering and business users are the target, but you can guess where this goes if it works.

No launch date yet. They're still in the planning and building phase. But clearly, OpenAI doesn't want to be a chatbot you keep open in a browser tab. They want to be the desktop app you work out of.

So? It's not happening tomorrow, but it's worth paying attention to how they structure it. If they get the interface right and keep it simple, this could actually be useful. If they overcomplicate it, well, we've all seen that movie before.