ChatGPT gets access to Dropbox, Google Drive and Co. on request.

With connectors, ChatGPT will be able to access different data sources directly in the future; these include Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and SharePoint. There are also deep research connectors for GitHub, Hubspot, Linear and Microsoft and Google tools. It is still a beta version. However, the connections are already available to the first customers. OpenAI is also introducing a recording mode. This is also primarily intended for use in companies.

OpenAI gives the example of an employee who can access quarterly sales figures from PDFs or tables directly in ChatGPT via a Box connector. ChatGPT could then structure and evaluate these files. There should be options for various authorizations and approvals. In principle, however, the aim is to make as much knowledge as possible available to as many people in a company as possible. “Our goal is to develop ChatGPT into a platform that opens up an organization's entire wealth of knowledge.” Connectors enable “immediate access to collective knowledge”, writes OpenAI in a press release.

The deep research connectors also have agentic capabilities, meaning they can independently create and execute multi-stage research processes. In addition, custom tools can already be developed for ChatGPT via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). ChatGPT will support the protocol in the future. OpenAI writes that it is becoming the “industry standard for the flexible, open extension of AI models”. MCP was developed by Anthropic and is also used by other AI providers such as Microsoft and Google.

The connectors are initially available for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Team and ChatGPT Edu.

Record mode is designed to record and transcribe meetings and other conversations – but above all to bring structure to the content. The recordings can then be transferred to Canvas, for example, and converted into “concrete instructions for action”, writes OpenAI. This recording mode is only available for team users.

According to its statements, OpenAI now has three million paying corporate customers.

(emw)