OpenAI Acquires Apple Shortcuts Creators to Bring Deep Mac Integration to ChatGPT

OpenAI contiguous said that it has acquired Software Applications Incorporated and its AI app, Sky. Software Applications Incorporated and Sky were created by a squad of erstwhile Apple employees known for their enactment connected Apple's Shortcuts diagnostic and the Workflow app that preceded it.


Ari Weinstein and Conrad Kramer, 2 of the founders of Software Applications Incorporated, besides founded Workflow. Workflow was a fashionable iOS automation app earlier Apple acquired it successful 2017. Weinstein and Kramer joined Apple erstwhile Workflow was acquired, and the app ended up serving arsenic the backbone for the Shortcuts diagnostic that's disposable crossed iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

Kramer near Apple successful 2019 and Weinstein near successful 2023, which is erstwhile the 2 teamed up to recovered their caller institution and commencement enactment connected Sky. Sky didn't officially launch, but it is simply a Mac-based earthy connection AI adjunct capable to reply questions and implicit tasks successful immoderate unfastened Mac window.

OpenAI says that it plans to bring Sky's heavy macOS integration into ChatGPT, with each members of the Sky squad acceptable to articulation OpenAI. That includes Weinstein, Kramer, and respective different ex-Apple employees.
"We've ever wanted computers to beryllium much empowering, customizable, and intuitive. With LLMs, we tin yet enactment the pieces together. That's wherefore we built Sky, an AI acquisition that floats implicit your desktop to assistance you deliberation and create. We're thrilled to articulation OpenAI to bring that imaginativeness to hundreds of millions of people." --Ari Weinstein, Co-Founder and CEO, Software Applications Incorporated
OpenAI's Sky acquisition comes conscionable a time aft OpenAI announced ChatGPT Atlas, a caller browser that's designed to vie with Safari and Chrome. ChatGPT Atlas tin execute tasks connected the user's behalf with ChatGPT's existing AI Operator features, but Sky could further heighten that functionality successful the future.
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