OpenAI says ChatGPT can now directly import files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users

VentureBeat 2024-05-18 Carl Franzen

Context & Ripple Effects

This extends ChatGPT’s earlier move from text-only prompting toward richer inputs: Plus and Enterprise users had already gained image uploads and voice prompting, while web browsing gave the product access beyond its original knowledge cutoff.

Direct Drive and OneDrive imports make cloud-stored work materials available within the same assistant interface, a step that later coverage develops into file connections for Deep Research.

First-order effects

Plus, Team, and Enterprise users can bring files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive into ChatGPT without first handling those files outside the assistant.
OpenAI makes ChatGPT more useful for document-based tasks tied to customers’ existing cloud-storage accounts.

Second-order effects

Workplace AI tools competing for paid teams face greater pressure to support the repositories where users already keep documents, rather than requiring manual uploads or separate workflows.
The feature increases the practical value of ChatGPT subscriptions for knowledge-work use cases, where access to current internal files can matter as much as model capabilities.

Third-order effects

If this pattern continues, assistants may compete less as standalone chat products and more as workflow layers spanning storage, research, and productivity tools.
That shift raises the strategic importance of permissioned access to enterprise content and of controls governing how assistants handle connected files.

The trend: ChatGPT is becoming a workflow-native work surface by connecting conversational AI to the documents and services where office work already happens.

Discussion

@openai @openai on x
We're rolling out interactive tables and charts along with the ability to add files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive into ChatGPT. Available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users over the coming weeks. https://openai.com/... [image]
@kristileilani Kristi Hines on x
OpenAI is also rolling out connected apps to some ChatGPT Enterprise users. Kind of funny that they put Google Drive above Microsoft OneDrive, considering who they are partners with... #ai #news [image]
@theaiadvantage Igor Pogany on x
We try not to think about competitors too much but we are adding the only new feature they shipped to our product.
@kristileilani Kristi Hines on x
Connected apps are here!
@spshulem Spencer Shulem on x
This will kill the most amount of startups. RIP.
@msg Michael S Galpert on x
people assume that this is taking business away from wrappers. they are wrong. if you built an interactive tables app you should double down on it and build deeper experiences that they can't/won't see: @JuliusAI_
@benjamindekr @benjamindekr on x
Interactive tables and charts coming to ChatGPT. It looks like you can also “talk to them” and ask questions. Probably huge if it works well.
@ikeadrift Benjamin on x
this rules btw. if you do stuff with numbers you're gonna love it
@jerryjliu0 Jerry Liu on x
If I'm understanding correctly, this is fancy text-to-pandas / text-to-SQL on top of CSVs, with some tool use to generate charts 📊 That's dope. We'll create some open-source templates so that you as the developer can also create a similar experience. If you want to go the
@gdb Greg Brockman on x
ChatGPT tabular data support:
@alexhalliday Alex Halliday on x
@OpenAI Just wait till developers can build and submit custom UI components.
@nickadobos Nick Dobos on x
Interactive Charts!!! GPT is coming for @JuliusAI_ Interesting google drive & one drive integration. Seems a little weird, looks like you still need to manually attach the file. Which doesn't seem like a very big upgrade. I was hoping gpt would automatically search & RAG
@unrealstriker @unrealstriker on x
@OpenAI I see you made something people want [image]
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
This went live for me about 48 hours ago but only worked sporadically so I couldn't test it. It now seems to be completely stable. [image]
@alliekmiller Allie K. Miller on x
Rating this new ChatGPT feature a 12/10. Why? 1) I've been screaming for more spreadsheet-related AI. 90% of the enterprises I speak with ask for AI for spreadsheets. 2) Their reply feature now extends to tables (presumably also cells, rows, multi-column, etc.) 3) It's yummy.
@narphorium Shawn Simister on x
Looks like someone at OpenAI read @geoffreylitt's post on malleable software https://www.geoffreylitt.com/ ...
@mayfer Murat on x
@OpenAI please add Escape key to stop current response the web interface is still the only usable option until that's added to the mac app
@openrenato Renato Villanueva on x
@danshipper What a creative way to get more data since they have already scraped the entire web.
@danshipper Dan Shipper on x
yasssss you can now connect Google Drive to ChatGPT [image]
@joshsisley Josh Sisley on x
@danshipper Oh cool. Now I can hand over all of my Google Drive info to OpenAI so they can use it to train off of. No thanks. When they can actually tell me what data they are using to train the model, I might consider it.
@kamilrextin Kamil on x
@danshipper Rip Gemini
@bouchernicolas Nicolas Boucher on x
New: Excel and Google Sheets in ChatGPT! 👉 Watch the video and tell me what you think! Here is what you will be able to do: - Upload your files from Google Drive - Upload your files from Microsoft OneDrive Then you can: - Interact with tables - Interact with charts - [video]
@8teapi @8teapi on x
@OpenAI This is going to draw blood
@rohanpaul_ai Rohan Paul on x
@OpenAI Wow “Instead of downloading files to your desktop and then uploading them to ChatGPT, you can now add various file types directly from your Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. This allows ChatGPT to understand your Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Microsoft Excel, Word, a…
@nathanlands Nathan Lands on x
Wow, this is pretty huge. I recently predicted that within a year you'd be able to connect your files to ChatGPT. And now it's already happening, altho just with Google Drive to start. Every time I try to predict something with AI, it happens even sooner than I think.
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