Saad Ullah
OpenAI just made a big move that changes what ChatGPT actually is. The company's latest update brings Shared Projects to everyone and launches Company Knowledge for Business, Enterprise, and Education customers. Together, these features transform ChatGPT from a simple chatbot into something closer to a collaborative workspace—one that can manage projects, connect your internal tools, and remember what matters to your organization.
This is OpenAI betting that the future of AI isn't just about conversations—it's about workflows.
What's New
In a recent tweet, Tibor Blaho, the update includes two main features. Shared Projects lets multiple people work together in ChatGPT by combining chats, files, and instructions in one shared space. Free users can invite up to five people and upload five files, Plus users get 10 collaborators and 25 files, and Pro users can bring in 100 people with 40 files. Once you share a project, ChatGPT automatically enables project-specific memory so it remembers relevant details without mixing them into your other conversations. People can co-edit prompts, share results, and refine outputs together in real time.
Company Knowledge, available for business and education customers, goes even further by connecting internal data sources like Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, and GitHub directly into ChatGPT. Powered by a version of GPT-5, it lets teams ask natural language questions about their own company data—things like "What was our final Q3 budget?" or "Summarize the key milestones from our GitHub commits." The system works within existing permissions and access controls to keep everything secure and compliant.
Why This Matters
These aren't just new features—they're a signal that OpenAI is repositioning ChatGPT as workflow intelligence, not just conversational AI. Teams can now manage entire projects without switching between tools. ChatGPT becomes a single access point for both public information and private company data. And with context memory and document linking built in, there's less jumping around between apps.
Industry watchers say OpenAI is laying groundwork to make ChatGPT a central productivity layer that competes directly with Microsoft Copilot, Google Workspace AI, and Notion. The timing matters too—this rollout comes as speculation grows about GPT-5 integration into enterprise products, suggesting ChatGPT's professional toolkit is entering a new phase.
Shared Projects democratizes collaboration by reaching even free users, while Company Knowledge targets organizations that need structured, traceable answers with full context. OpenAI has also added new connectors for tools like Asana, ClickUp, and GitLab Issues, positioning ChatGPT as a complete enterprise assistant that handles task management, documentation, and project intelligence all in one place.
The message is clear: ChatGPT isn't just for answering questions anymore—it's becoming the place where work actually happens.
Saad Ullah
