OpenAI’s ChatGPT Company Knowledge & AI Music Tool Comes Amid $22.5B SoftBank Investment

OpenAI has become the undisputed leader in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector with its wide range of generative AI (GenAI) products.

From the tailored text-based responses of ChatGPT to the incredibly realistic video outputs from Sora and the recently launched AI-based internet browser—ChatGPT Atlas—OpenAI’s products are flooding the market and revolutionizing industries, affecting people, governments, and businesses around the world.

Now, the prominent AI startup is bringing further personalization to responses for businesses through its latest innovation.
 

Company Knowledge In ChatGPT

OpenAI introduced company knowledge for users of ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu. This allows businesses to bring all the context from their connected apps into ChatGPT, enabling them to gain answers specific to their business.

It will connect apps such as Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, and GitHub, and leverage content from documents, files, messages, emails, and more, to give comprehensive and accurate responses.

Company knowledge is powered by a version of GPT‑5 that’s trained to look across multiple sources before generating answers. Furthermore, this feature comes with clear citations to ascertain where the information came from and can be followed along in the sidebar to understand what information it’s using and how.

OpenAI provided an example of how the new feature works: If you have an upcoming client call, ChatGPT can create a briefing for you based on recent messages from your account channel in Slack, key details from emails with your client, the last call notes in Google Docs, and any escalations from Intercom support tickets since your last meeting.

OpenAI promises that the “company knowledge” feature will only access material that it has been authorized to view by users.

Explaining the new feature, OpenAI said, “ChatGPT can help with almost any question, but the context you need to get work done often lives in your internal tools: docs, files, messages, emails, tickets, and project trackers. Those tools don’t always connect to each other, and the most accurate answer is often spread across them.”

 

OpenAI Buys Software Applications Incorporated

A few days ago, OpenAI announced it acquired Software Applications Incorporated, the company that made Sky, which is a natural language interface for Apple’s Mac.

The move will allow OpenAI to bring Sky’s deep macOS integration and product craft into ChatGPT. It will also see Software Applications Incorporated team joining OpenAI.

Sky comes with the ability to understand what’s happening on a user’s screen and can take action using various apps.

“We’re building a future where ChatGPT doesn’t just respond to your prompts, it helps you get things done,” said Nick Turley, VP & Head of ChatGPT. “Sky’s deep integration with the Mac accelerates our vision of bringing AI directly into the tools people use every day.”

“We’ve always wanted computers to be more empowering, customizable, and intuitive. With LLMs, we can finally put the pieces together. That’s why we built Sky, an AI experience that floats over your desktop to help you think and create,” said Ari Weinstein, Co-Founder and CEO, Software Applications Incorporated.

These moves come amid other speculative reports about new products and investments. 
 

OpenAI’s New GenAI Music Tool

As per a report citing anonymous sources, OpenAI is currently developing a new audio generator that can produce outputs from text and audio prompts. It will be able to add music to existing videos or add specific instruments to existing vocal tracks.

OpenAI is working with students from the Juilliard School to build training data.

Interestingly, OpenAI has developed generative music models in the past; however, they came before the launch of ChatGPT. Other than this, OpenAI is developing text-to-speech and speech-to-text models.
 

SoftBank Completes $30 Billion Investment

Ahead of this, reports note that SoftBank has completed its $30 billion investment in OpenAI by approving a second instalment of $22.5 billion.

The approval comes after months of negotiations and the meeting of predetermined conditions related to OpenAI’s restructuring to a for-profit company and eventual public offering.

The new investment follows a previous one worth $10 billion in April 2024, which was then followed up by an additional $30 billion in December 2024, which came with the aforementioned conditions. In case OpenAI missed those requirements, the investment would be revised to a total of $20 billion.

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