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OpenAI offers integrations that connect ChatGPT to external tools and business applications, allowing users to automate tasks across services like Google Drive, Slack, and others directly inside ChatGPT.
Details
ChatGPT supports app connectors and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, enabling ChatGPT to read files, search databases, and trigger actions in third-party software. These integrations are available to ChatGPT Enterprise, Business, Edu, Pro, and Plus users. The MCP integration entered beta in 2025.
Products affected
ChatGPT (EnterpriseBusinessEduProPlus)
Sources & Evidence
News Article
Company Disclosure
Cite this record
Trace Foundation. (2026). OpenAI: OpenAI offers integrations that connect ChatGPT to external tools and business applications, allowing users to automate tasks across services like Google Drive, Slack, and others directly inside ChatGPT (data as of 2026-07-21) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/63a71715-1c22-414f-a0bc-c8f2d2c330fb. Accessed October 14, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/63a71715-1c22-414f-a0bc-c8f2d2c330fb
- Data as of
- July 21, 2026
- Last verified
- April 10, 2026
Other practices by OpenAI
Creative GenOpenAI offered Sora, an AI video generation tool that produced short video clips from text prompts or uploaded images, to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers starting December 2024; the product was discontinued in a phased shutdown, with the app and web closing on April 26, 2026 and the API scheduled to close on September 24, 2026. OpenAI announced the discontinuation on March 24, 2026, with reporting pointing to high compute costs and a strategic shift toward coding and enterprise products. A three-year licensing deal signed in December 2025 with The Walt Disney Company, under which Disney had committed a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, lapsed when the product shut down before the partnership terms were executed.OtherOpenAI deployed ChatGPT for US government and defense use through its OpenAI for Government platform, including a $200 million Pentagon contract and deployment on the DoD's GenAI.mil platform for approximately 3 million personnel.RecommendationOpenAI deployed contextual ads in ChatGPT starting February 9, 2026, showing sponsored content to free-tier users based on the topics of their current conversation.
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