OpenAI is exploring methods for customers to check in to third-party apps utilizing their ChatGPT account, the corporate famous on a web page printed Tuesday. OpenAI is at present gauging curiosity from builders who may wish to combine this service into their apps.
ChatGPT is rapidly turning into one of many largest shopper software on the earth, now with roughly 600 million month-to-month lively customers. To capitalize on this recognition, OpenAI appears wanting to attempt to broaden into different shopper areas, akin to on-line purchasing, social media, and private gadgets. A possible “Register with ChatGPT” characteristic might assist OpenAI compete with different huge shopper know-how firms — akin to Apple, Google, Microsoft — that assist folks with a variety of on-line providers, together with a fast solution to check in to third-party apps.
Earlier this month, OpenAI launched a preview of the “Sign in with ChatGPT” expertise for builders in Codex CLI, the corporate’s open supply AI coding software for terminals. The characteristic let builders join their ChatGPT Free, Plus, or Professional accounts to their API accounts. OpenAI provided Plus customers $5 in API credit to check in with ChatGPT, and Professional customers $50 in API credit.
OpenAI appears to be curious about integrating the sign-in service with a broad array of firms. The developer curiosity kind asks for firms to specify their app’s consumer base, starting from tiny firms with fewer than 1,000 weekly customers to huge apps with over 100 million weekly customers. The shape additionally asks builders how they cost for AI options at the moment and whether or not they’re clients of the OpenAI API.
CEO Sam Altman noted in 2023 that the corporate could look right into a “check in with OpenAI” characteristic in 2024. Nonetheless, it now seems OpenAI is extra critically constructing out the potential at the moment, in 2025. It’s unclear when the sign-in characteristic would go reside for customers of ChatGPT or what number of firms have signed as much as be a part of it.
OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark.