That seems to leave no room for an OpenAI’s productivity suite. It’s unlikely to improve so much on Google’s traditional collaboration tools or Microsoft’s feature set that it can gain a foothold. Trying to split the difference between the suites and offer a wishy-washy application somewhere between the two won’t help at all.
So, it’s likely OpenAI’s suite will play to its strengths and offer genAI-centric collaboration for creating, editing and finalizing documents, possibly turning the way people create documents on its head. Rather than have a single author write a document, then send links to others so they can collaborate on editing it, OpenAI’s suite might well use collaborative AI from the get-go, allowing people to use AI prompts together to create documents from scratch. They would also collaboratively edit it using AI. It could also use genAI-guided brainstorming and even genAI graphic-creation tools as well.
This way, the suite won’t need to replicate Microsoft 365’s bells and whistles or take a back seat to Google Workplace for collaboration. It could be pitched as the future of the genAI-driven workplace.