ChatGPT just became a shared office. Two of its biggest pieces are not built yet

OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a shared office

OpenAI used its DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco on 29 September to unveil ChatGPT Space, a persistent team workspace built directly into ChatGPT, along with Pages, a new kind of document meant for people and AI to edit together. It is one of more than 20 announcements OpenAI made that day, alongside its always-on Dots agents, which failed a UK government safety test the same week. Space is a different kind of launch: not a smarter model, but an attempt to make ChatGPT the place where a team's actual work happens, instead of a tool you visit to draft something and then paste somewhere else.

Space replaces ChatGPT's existing Library feature and is live today for Pro, Business and Enterprise accounts on the desktop app and the web. OpenAI says the goal is to keep a team's history, files and in-progress work in one shared place rather than scattered across separate chats.

What a Space actually does

Inside a Space, teammates, ChatGPT and a user's Dot work from the same pool of files and context. Pages sit at the center of it: documents where people can write, generate charts and images, or visualize data, then invite colleagues to edit and comment in real time. OpenAI says a Page can stay synchronized with connected tools, so a project page can pull open action items from Slack, email and calendars while ChatGPT or a Dot keeps owners and deadlines current as plans change.

A meetings plugin, in beta on the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS, can take notes during a call and post a summary with action items straight into a Space, then delete the audio once the notes are ready. On Business and Enterprise plans, teams can also mention @ChatGPT inside a Slack channel or a Microsoft Teams thread to pull it into a conversation without anyone needing their own individual license.

The piece that is still missing

The comparison OpenAI is clearly inviting, to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, is not quite finished yet. Collaborative slides, the feature that would let a team build and co-edit a presentation and export it to PowerPoint or Google Slides, are not live at launch. OpenAI's own materials say they are "coming in the next few weeks." There is no spreadsheet equivalent announced at all, a basic piece of any office suite. Mobile access to Space currently covers finding, reading and sharing Pages; creating and editing them on a phone is also still coming.

None of that makes Space a vapourware announcement. Pages, the shared file hub, and the Slack and Teams integrations are shipping today, not promised for later. But the parts of the pitch that would make Space a genuine like-for-like substitute for an existing office suite are, by OpenAI's own account, incomplete.

Who is actually using it

OpenAI's own marketing page for the product points to a handful of named early users rather than broad adoption figures. Virgin Atlantic is one of them.

"A competitor analysis cycle that would normally take weeks now takes hours, helping us move from insight to product decisions much faster," said Nathan Bolt, head of digital products at Virgin Atlantic, describing how the airline used ChatGPT Work to benchmark its customer journeys against rivals.

That is a real result from a real, named customer, which is more than most feature launches offer on day one. It is also one case study, hand-picked by the vendor, standing in for a claim about how an entire category of software gets used. Whether Space changes daily habits at companies that have spent years configuring Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace permissions is a question that will take months of actual use to answer, not a keynote demo.

The data question

Putting a team's files and conversations into a shared AI workspace raises an obvious question: what happens to that data. OpenAI says that for Business, Enterprise and Edu customers, workspace content is not used to improve its models by default, and personal-plan users can choose whether their own work is used that way. Sharing permissions on a Page follow a workspace's existing access rules, and a file uploaded directly into a Page inherits that page's permissions, while merely linking to an outside file does not hand collaborators access to the original.

There is a subtler wrinkle. If ChatGPT pulls something from a person's private memory and writes it onto a shared Page, that information becomes visible to everyone who can see the Page, which makes the Page itself the point where private context can cross into shared team knowledge. OpenAI is also previewing a system called Private Intelligence, aimed at letting businesses use the underlying models with more confidence that their content stays protected, with a more locked-down option, Private Inference, due later this year.

Our take

ChatGPT Space is a genuine change in what OpenAI is building, not another chat feature bolted onto the side of the assistant. Turning Pages into living documents that a Dot keeps current, and giving ChatGPT a seat inside Slack and Teams conversations, is a real shift from answering questions toward owning a piece of a team's actual workflow. The 1.2 billion weekly users OpenAI says ChatGPT now has give this a distribution advantage that a standalone workspace tool could never start with.

But treat the office-suite framing as aspirational for now. A team cannot yet build a deck or a spreadsheet inside Space, two of the most basic things any real office tool needs to do, and the only evidence that it works at scale is a short list of customers OpenAI chose to showcase. The sensible read is to watch what ships over the next few weeks, specifically whether slides arrive on schedule and whether independent reporting turns up companies using Space who were not handed to journalists by OpenAI's own press team. For now, Space is a credible first move, not a finished rival to the office suites it is clearly aimed at.