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ChatGPT’s new Space wants to replace the copy-paste dance with Google Docs
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In Short: Space competes with tools like Google Workspace, where users can integrate AI capabilities across various applications such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
At OpenAI’s DevDay, the company announced the launch of ChatGPT Space, a new shared workspace designed to replace the Library feature for eligible users.
Space is rolling out to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users on the web and desktop, offering a more streamlined experience for collaboration.
Previously, users would brainstorm in ChatGPT, paste their ideas into a document, and then return to the chatbot for further refinement.
OpenAI now seeks to eliminate this back-and-forth with Space, allowing users to keep working on the same material with both AI and human collaborators.
In Space, users can convert existing ChatGPT conversations into collaborative workspaces, edit content themselves, request AI-generated rewrites, or invite team members to contribute in real time.
Each collaborator works with their own instance of ChatGPT, and comments can be used to delegate tasks to the AI or other team members.
Users had previously complained about the clunky process of switching between different ChatGPT environments, which often overlapped in functionality.
What this adds
This new integration aims to address user complaints about the inefficiency of switching between different ChatGPT environments.
Background
Google Docs is an online word processor and part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. Google Docs is accessible via a web browser as a web-based application and is also available as a mobile app on Android and iOS and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS.
What's still developing
- ChatGPT has gotten pretty good at helping you make something, but finishing the job often means taking that work somewhere else.
- You can turn an existing ChatGPT conversation into one, edit it yourself, ask ChatGPT to rewrite sections, or invite teammates to make changes in real time.
- That puts Space squarely in territory already occupied by tools such as Google Workspace, where Gemini can work across Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, and Drive.
- Space can also use connected services such as Google Drive and Slack, while Dots can keep shared work updated as plans change.
- Users had complained the split felt clunky, and much like the confusion around ChatGPT and ChatGPT Work, it was never obvious which environment to use since both interfaces largely overlapped.