OpenAI Pioneers Common Workspace Called Space For Humans And Agents

Space is another dev day feature from OpenAI, where the company is creating its own ecosystem for workflows, combining its Dots agentic system with a digital drive where documents and projects can live.

“Space is a home for your pages, uploaded files, and other work in ChatGPT,” spokespersons write. “You can create and edit pages with ChatGPT, organize related content in spaces, and share your work to collaborate with other people.”

Space, which is available in Pro, Business, and Enterprise editions, replaces “Library” in prior models; it also competes with Google drive. In addition, OpenAI has engineered “Pages” which are editable documents that humans or agents can take and change. These would be the equivalent of Google docs.

That’s interesting, to me at least, in that lots of people use Google docs now. So presumably, you’ll be able to use some kind of API process to port a Google doc into Pages and vice versa.

Space for AI Settlers

Here’s the thing: if humans are going to be managing swarms of their own Dots, as I wrote about yesterday, Space will be the corral where everybody coordinates, where the human orchestrates, and where all of the “stuff” is. OpenAI has said they are planning to add functionality for items like PowerPoint-style presentations later.

In other words, Space will be the digital real estate for the Dots, which are their own autonomous little actors. Dots are built with their own operating systems, browsers, etc. as each one is the sole inhabitant of its own virtual machine. Space will be their greater home, their neighborhood, if you will. That is, if it’s this branded ecosystem that takes off, as opposed to some other one.

The Leaderboard

So how good is Space, compared to some other shared human/agent workspaces?

Well, it’s brand new, so it’s hard to say. But I did find this input from Evan Brooks at Ones.com, which included recommendations for Github, Replit, and others.

Does it Make Noise?

Anyway, there’s also Buzz, pioneered by block.xyz in June.