ChatGPT is turning its OpenAI chatbot into an app ecosystem — and travel is playing a big part in the expansion as Booking.com and Expedia offer their own interactive applications through this new platform.
On Monday, OpenAI announced its plan to evolve ChatGPT into a developer-friendly environment where third parties can build and launch AI apps. That means ChatGPT can now put, say, an Expedia app directly into its natural language conversation flow, so users can make queries and get specific results faster and more intuitively.
“We want ChatGPT to be a great way for people to make progress, to be more productive, more inventive, to learn faster, to do whatever they’re trying to do in their lives better,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “[Th