OpenAI is declaring Code Red, but they’re boxed in.
Literally. ChatGPT and similar products exist in a box that isn’t connected by default to anything.
Anthropic wisely has cozied up hard to Microsoft, with MS Office documents as part of their native skills and connectors to everything they can possibly connect to.
And Google… well, Google is no surprise. Because it owns YouTube… and Gmail… and Google Workspace… and Search… Gemini is EVERYWHERE. And with the advent of Gemini 3, the incompetent, ham-handed Gemini implementations previously in places like Google Sheets are now quite competent and useful. Google Slides and Gemini can create deecnt slide decks, especially if you’re doing standard corporate stuff.
The thing about AI is that its usefulness is directly proportional to its integration. When you don’t have to leave Google Docs or MS Word to get some help, do some research, or get stuff done, you use it more. You value it more. And it provides more value, more productivity, more capability.
When you have to leave wherever you’re working to go somewhere else, that imposes a context switching penalty.
Even things like ChatGPT’s Browser still don’t provide the level of integration that users really want. If they have to have AI, they want it to be within mouse’s reach on the screen they’re on.
Or better yet, not even something they have to think about. This is where Agentic AI will make or break most people’s adoption eventually. When you have an AI agent that reads your email and tells you the 5 most important emails you need to respond to, that’s useful. When you have an AI agent that scans inbound leads and tells you how well they align to your ideal customer, that’s useful.
AI for AI’s sake helps no one, and that’s what OpenAI and others have focused on the last couple of years. Bigger models, better models, smarter models. That’s important, for sure. But now we have enough AI. Today’s models are smarter than any individual PhD in their area of expertise.
AI that helps you do more stuff – especially hands off – helps everyone. That’s the new game, and I don’t know that OpenAI sees that as clearly as Google does.
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