OpenAI goes for Microsoft’s jugular — its Office productivity suite – Computerworld

That seems to leave no room for an OpenAI’s productivity suite. It’s unlikely to improve so much on Google’s traditional collaboration tools or Microsoft’s feature set that it can gain a foothold. Trying to split the difference between the suites and offer a wishy-washy application somewhere between the two won’t help at all.

So, it’s likely OpenAI’s suite will play to its strengths and offer genAI-centric collaboration for creating, editing, and finalizing documents, possibly turning the way people create documents on its head. Rather than have a single author write a document, then send links to others so they can collaborate on editing it, OpenAI’s suite might well use collaborative AI from the get-go, allowing people to use AI prompts together to create documents from scratch. They would also collaboratively edit it using AI. It could also use genAI-guided brainstorming and even genAI graphic-creation tools as well.

This way, the suite won’t need to replicate Microsoft 365’s bells and whistles or take a back seat to Google Workplace for collaboration. It could be pitched as the future of the genAI-driven workplace.