OpenAI at present stated that it has acquired Software program Functions Integrated and its AI app, Sky. Software program Functions Integrated and Sky have been created by a group of former Apple staff recognized for his or her work on Apple’s Shortcuts function and the Workflow app that preceded it.
Ari Weinstein and Conrad Kramer, two of the founders of Software program Functions Integrated, additionally based Workflow. Workflow was a preferred iOS automation app earlier than Apple acquired it in 2017. Weinstein and Kramer joined Apple when Workflow was acquired, and the app ended up serving because the spine for the Shortcuts function that is out there throughout iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
Kramer left Apple in 2019 and Weinstein left in 2023, which is when the 2 teamed as much as discovered their new firm and begin work on Sky. Sky did not formally launch, however it’s a Mac-based pure language AI assistant in a position to reply questions and full duties in any open Mac window.
OpenAI says that it plans to deliver Sky’s deep macOS integration into ChatGPT, with all members of the Sky group set to hitch OpenAI. That features Weinstein, Kramer, and a number of other different ex-Apple staff.
“We have all the time needed computer systems to be extra empowering, customizable, and intuitive. With LLMs, we are able to lastly put the items collectively. That is why we constructed Sky, an AI expertise that floats over your desktop that can assist you suppose and create. We’re thrilled to hitch OpenAI to deliver that imaginative and prescient to tons of of hundreds of thousands of individuals.” –Ari Weinstein, Co-Founder and CEO, Software program Functions Integrated
OpenAI’s Sky acquisition comes only a day after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Atlas, a brand new browser that is designed to compete with Safari and Chrome. ChatGPT Atlas can carry out duties on the consumer’s behalf with ChatGPT’s current AI Operator options, however Sky may additional improve that performance sooner or later.
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