OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown

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**Alex Kantrowitz** (1:39)
Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday Edition, where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format. We have a great show for you today. OpenAI's long-awaited super app is finally here, and it's starting to look like all AI apps are going to look the same. So what does that mean? Meta comes out with a new model, Muse Spark 1.1. It's almost as performant in some areas as the Frontier Labs, but in some areas, it's 25% of the cost, so it has the price war arrived. Finally, we will discuss the Brown students. Cheating with ChatGPT, take home, test for the midterm. Everybody gets 100, it seems like, in class at Brown University for the final, and it's Failure City out there. So what does this mean for our youth?
Joining us as always on Fridays To Do It is Ranjan Roy of Margins. Ranjan, great to see you.

**Ranjan Roy** (2:33)
Good to see you, Alex. I'm glad you, as an Indian person, I'm glad you clarified it was Brown University and not the Brown students, but it is good to see you.

**Alex Kantrowitz** (2:40)
There were so many jokes about that on Twitter, and people being like, who tweeted this study, like, why do you gotta bring race into it? And I was like, be careful, Alex, remember to say Brown University.
And of course, I messed it up, but yes, Brown University. Let's move on until we return to that. Alright, so I'm not even gonna, there's no segue. Alright, let's talk about what happened this week in tech. OpenAI finally unveiled its Claude Cowork competitor and its desktop super app. This is according to the information. OpenAI, as part of its effort to attract more business customers, announced a new agent called ChatGPT Work, which taps into corporate data to automate the creation of spreadsheets and presentation and can also handle more complex tasks like financial forecasts and conducting research. ChatGPT Work is OpenAI's answer to Anthropix's popular Claude Cowork product, which the startup has used to expand the market for AI coding to non-technical users. OpenAI also unveiled a desktop super app that marries ChatGPT with Codex and the new ChatGPT Work offering. This reflects OpenAI's recent realization that Codex is better than ChatGPT in handling long-running tasks that involve multiple steps and require the use of external tools.
Let's just start here. Ranjan, it seems like all... I mean, we've talked about this on the show a bunch, but like now you can finally see it with your eyes. All AI products seem to be converging on this one use case, which is that you might have some chat, but really AI is there to get things done for you. How are AI companies, and we talked about this a bit with MG on Monday, but how are AI companies going to differentiate themselves if they're all offering effectively a very similar version of the same product?

**Ranjan Roy** (4:32)
Well, this is front and center in my life working at Rider and delivering enterprise AI and what we've been selling for a year now, natural language-driven agentic workflow building, which sounds very buzzwordy but is basically this. It's that marrying of what Codex has done in the command line, but in a more chat-based interface.