You know that feeling when you’re digging through Slack, Google Drive, and a mountain of emails just to find that one doc from two weeks ago?
Yeah — that’s about to be over.
Because OpenAI just gave ChatGPT an upgrade that basically turns it into your personal office brain.
The new feature’s called Company Knowledge, and it’s powered by a version of GPT-5.
The idea? Make ChatGPT capable of pulling info from all your connected tools — Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, GitHub — and answer your questions like a super-powered workplace search engine.
Need to prep for a client call? You can literally ask:
“What’s the latest on the Anderson project?”
And ChatGPT will build you a briefing from Slack messages, Google Docs notes, and even Intercom tickets.
The wild part is how it thinks while it searches.
If your question’s vague — it runs multiple searches across different sources, compares them, and figures out the most consistent answer — all in real time.
Every response even comes with citations, so you can double-check exactly where the info came from.
Now, it’s not perfect — you have to manually enable Company Knowledge in new chats, and when it’s on, ChatGPT can’t browse the web or make visuals. But even with those limits, this feels like a huge leap toward true AI agents — ones that actually understand your work context, not just your prompts.
It's also only available for Business, Enterprise, and Education users
And if you’ve been following the space, this sounds a lot like Anthropic’s “Skills” update from earlier this month — which aimed to make Claude smarter at handling specific work tasks.
But OpenAI’s version?
It feels less like a productivity tweak and more like a full-blown data assistant.
The Big Picture
AI tools aren’t just answering questions anymore — they’re starting to know your world. Your projects. Your teammates. Your study notes. All searchable, summarized, and cited in seconds.
That’s the real future of work (and school): AI that understands your workflow, not just your words.
So yeah, OpenAI didn’t just make ChatGPT smarter — they made it even more useful.
But as we said earlier — be careful what info you feed it or give it access to. Power’s great, but privacy still matters.
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