OpenAI is preparing the largest redesign of ChatGPT since the chatbot launched in 2022, folding coding tools, autonomous agents, image generation, and outside services into one interface. The Financial Times reported the plan on June 7, citing more than a dozen current and former employees. Changes start rolling out across the website and mobile apps in the coming weeks.
The phrasing inside OpenAI is blunt. One senior employee told the FT that "chat is dead," which is a strange thing to say about the product that made the company the face of the AI boom and still has roughly 900 million weekly users. But that is the pitch: a chatbot answers questions, an agent does the work.
What's actually changing
The redesign embeds Codex, OpenAI's coding agent, far more prominently, alongside workspace agents that handle multi-step tasks without you babysitting each prompt. Partner services get wired in too. Canva and Booking.com are confirmed launch partners, with Expedia, Figma, Spotify, Coursera, and Zillow named in pilot reporting.
The eventual goal, per people familiar with the project, is to kill prompts entirely. The system learns your habits and acts before you ask. That is the kind of ambition that sounds great in a roadmap and tends to get messy in practice, but it is clearly where Thibault Sottiaux, who now leads core product after running Codex, wants this to go. "What we're building towards is where you have your own personal agent," he told the FT, the sort of vision statement every AI exec is reciting this year.
So why now?
Follow the money. OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO, confirmed publicly on June 8 with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley advising. Analysts expect a valuation north of $1 trillion. And the numbers underneath that figure are doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Business customers, around 2 million of them, account for roughly 40% of revenue, a share OpenAI wants at 50% by year-end. Codex weekly active users sit at about 5 million and most of them pay, which is the whole point. The free billion are a cost center. The enterprise slice is the business. TechCrunch noted that OpenAI is heading for the public markets even after missing its own user and revenue targets, projecting it burns cash for years yet.
So the superapp story is partly an investor story. A single platform with one subscription is easier to underwrite than a sprawl of consumer, developer, and research products. It also puts OpenAI in a direct fight with Anthropic, which filed its own confidential IPO about a week earlier and has built a reputation among developers for exactly the agentic, coding-heavy work OpenAI is now chasing.
Whether the billion casual users want a personal agent rearranging their digital life, or just want the thing that writes emails and answers questions, is the part nobody has answered. The rollout begins in the coming weeks on web and mobile. No firm launch date for the full experience.
