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ChatGPT’s New Step Toward LLM OS

OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT’s desktop app integrations, enhancing its ability to interact with various applications on PCs and Macs. Previously, ChatGPT supported integrations with tools like VS Code, Xcode, Terminal, iTerm 2, and TextEdit.

The latest update introduces compatibility with additional integrated development environments (IDEs) such as BBEdit, MatLab, Nova, Script Editor, TextMate, VSCodium, Cursor, WindSurf, and the JetBrains suite, including Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and PyCharm. Terminal applications like Warp and Prompt are also now supported.

Beyond coding tools, ChatGPT has extended its reach to note-taking and productivity apps, adding Apple Notes, Notion, and Quip to its integration list. These enhancements enable features like Advanced Voice Mode to function seamlessly within these applications, allowing users to interact with ChatGPT more naturally and efficiently.

According to Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer, these developments are part of a broader strategy to make ChatGPT more “agentic,” transitioning from a simple question-and-answer tool to an assistant capable of performing tasks on behalf of users.

TheWhiteBox’s takeaway:

On Sunday, we discussed how the biggest use case for LLMs was the LLM OS, where products like ChatGPT or Claude essentially become platforms on which most of the new software applications and the interactions human-computer occur.

Now, OpenAI has taken a crucial next step toward that view by allowing ChatGPT to interact with non-agentic applications (applications in which humans are still in charge of action-taking) and starting the transition toward ‘declarative applications’ in which humans demand what they want, and the computer executes.

In my view, this is the biggest product evolution we are going to see during 2025, and I bet that by the end of next year, a considerable portion of your computer usage will be driven by AIs, elevating the experience to something that a few years ago would have been worthy of a Hollywood film.

The next step?

This will surely make most new software AI native. That is, most software will essentially become front-end wrappers built on these platforms, where the interaction with the back-end (databases and workflow logic) takes place autonomously by large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT that can understand English commands. 2025 is the year of AI products, and I can’t wait to see what comes next.

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1-800-ChatGPT

For the tenth day of its twelve-day product-release spree, OpenAI has announced access to its Advanced Voice Mode via WhatsApp.

For a limited amount of minutes a month, you can access their frontier models through this application, facilitating the distribution of their product to a potential market of 2.7 billion active users of the app.

TheWhiteBox’s takeaway:

Justin Kan, the founder of the video game streaming platform Twitch, once said, “First-time founders focus on product; second-time founders focus on distribution.”

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