Brad Lightcap

No, I mean, we've seen enthusiasm for this from the beginning.

You remember way back when we launched something called Plugins back in the early days of ChatGPT.

This was one of our first attempts to start to build an ecosystem around ChatGPT so that ChatGPT can start to engage with and interact with the applications that are important to you in your personal life and at work.

And now we really have a much richer surface through MCP and other protocols to be able to bring applications into ChatGPT and for really to allow you to engage with ChatGPT in the kind of work around work, right?

It's the contextual aspect of I'm doing X or I need Y. I'm on a road trip and I want to know what playlist would go well with this in the context of my broader trip planning that allows you now to kind of use ChatGPT to solve that higher level task.

and then also integrate apps contextually to solve those specific problems that are useful.

Well, we've always thought of ChatGPT as like a super assistant.

We never set out to build a chat bot.

We always wanted to build something that was really true to you and what your preferences are, what your goals are, that could actually help you achieve more.

And so I think part of that is ChatGPT having an appreciation and understanding of the applications in your life that are important.

And I think enabling that kind of connectivity and interoperability makes ChatGPT richer, also enables a lot of pass-through for people to be able to engage with apps they love as well as new apps.

No, I think mostly people are really focused on building into new interfaces, right?

This is just like mobile in some sense, where you have a new interface, you have a new form factor.

People are going to want to use mobile form factors on the go.

And apps like Spotify in some ways exist

almost because they really nailed mobile and so we think actually there's an opportunity for builders to create entirely new applications that are even native to ChatGPT and of course for services you love to be able to benefit there too.

Is there a revenue sharing agreement with those third parties whose apps are accessible through ChatGPT?

So we're going to figure out the economics of this over time.

We're brand new here.

Plugins was the first version of this, and that was even an experiment.