Since its launch in 2022, ChatGPT has dominated news, swiftly becoming one of the most potent and well-liked AI technologies on the market. However, as recently disclosed in an internal strategy document, OpenAI still has big goals for its generative AI model, stating that it wants to provide consumers’ de facto “interface to the internet.”
This week, during the discovery phase of the Justice Department’s antitrust action against Google, the heavily redacted document from late 2024 was discovered. It outlines OpenAI’s intentions to transform ChatGPT into a “AI super assistant that greatly comprehends you and serves as your internet interface.”
It’s evident how much OpenAI believes ChatGPT will transform how we use the internet, even if a large portion of the document is blacked out. The business views it more as a web browsing buddy than a tool.
“ChatGPT is present in our lives today through our desktop apps, phone, and website,” the document states. “But our goal for ChatGPT is to support you wherever you are, throughout your entire life.” This includes helping you hook up with friends, finding the ideal restaurant, taking meeting notes, and creating presentations.
According to OpenAI, ChatGPT is “T-shaped” since it integrates “deep expertise for tasks that most people find impossible, and broad skills for daily tasks that are tedious,” such as learning to code.
While ChatGPT’s development as a “super assistant” took up the first half of 2025, the second half will be devoted to creating “enough monetizable demand to pursue these new models.”
“We’ll begin transforming ChatGPT into a super-assistant in the first half of next year: one that knows you, knows what matters to you, and assists with any task that a computer-savvy, emotionally intelligent, and intelligent person could do,” the document says. The moment is ideal. Finally, models like 02 and 03 are intelligent enough to consistently carry out agentic tasks, tools like computer use can increase ChatGPT’s proactive capabilities, and interaction paradigms like generative UI and multimodality enable both ChatGPT and users to express themselves in the most effective way for the task at hand.
The main challenges of ChatGPT are revealed by OpenAI.
The report also provides an intriguing look at OpenAI’s perceptions on rivals like Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Meta AI.
According to the study, “[REDACTED] presents the greatest threat in 2025 because they can incorporate comparable functionality into all of their products (for example, without having to deal with the risks of business model cannibalization that Google does).” Meta is the most likely possibility because the blacked-out section is only a few letters long.
Additionally, OpenAI declared its support for laws mandating that platforms allow users to select ChatGPT as their preferred helper.
The expanding infrastructure required to support ChatGPT’s rapidly expanding user base is another challenge mentioned by OpenAI, which is why CEO Sam Altman has made data center expansion one of the company’s primary priorities.
As the memo states, “growth and revenue won’t line up forever,” but “we are leading here, but we can’t rest.”
