OpenAI Plans ChatGPT 'Superapp' Overhaul Ahead of Stock Market Listing

OpenAI is transforming ChatGPT into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents, rolling out in coming weeks with greater prominence for its Codex coding product. ChatGPT serves over 900 million weekly active users and 50 million consumer subscribers as of early 2026. Business customers account for 40% of revenue, expected to reach 50% by year-end 2026. OpenAI was preparing a confidential U.S. IPO filing as of May 2026.

ChatGPT superapp overhaul

• ▪OpenAI is planning to turn ChatGPT into a 'superapp' with coding tools and AI agents.
• ▪The ChatGPT overhaul is set to roll out in the coming weeks, initially appearing as updates to ChatGPT's website and mobile apps.
• ▪The Financial Times report on OpenAI's ChatGPT overhaul cited more than a dozen current and former OpenAI employees.
• ▪OpenAI is redesigning ChatGPT's interface with new prompts and features steering users toward coding tools, image generation and partner services such as Canva and Booking.com.

Codex coding product expansion

• ▪The ChatGPT overhaul will give greater prominence and resources to OpenAI's coding product Codex.
• ▪Most Codex users are paying customers.
• ▪OpenAI is shifting resources to target lucrative enterprise clients and intensify competition with rival Anthropic.

Weekly active users

• ▪ChatGPT serves more than 900 million weekly active users as of early 2026.
• ▪ChatGPT had surpassed 50 million consumer subscribers as of early 2026.

Revenue from business customers

• ▪OpenAI expects business customers' share of revenue to rise to 50% by year-end 2026.
• ▪2 million businesses account for about 40% of OpenAI's revenue.

Potential stock market listing

• ▪OpenAI was preparing a confidential U.S. IPO filing in the coming weeks as of May 2026.
• ▪OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said OpenAI is not focused on IPO timing and will go public when it makes sense.

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