OpenAI to Integrate ChatGPT with Slack and Google Drive

OpenAI is set to begin testing the integration of Slack and Google Drive with ChatGPT among its business clients. This development is reported by TechCrunch.

The new Connectors feature will allow ChatGPT Team subscribers to link office application workspaces with the chatbot, enabling it to respond to queries derived from files, presentations, spreadsheets, and conversations in the corporate messenger. Future plans include expanding supported platforms to Microsoft SharePoint and Box.

“This will allow employees to easily access internal information, similar to how they use web search for world knowledge,” states a document reviewed by TechCrunch.

Connectors is launching in beta mode based on the GPT-4o model. It considers internal company information to provide responses. To create a search index, OpenAI synchronizes encrypted copies of company files and conversations on ChatGPT servers.

“Additional contextual information not directly used by the model is available by clicking the sources button at the bottom of each response. In relevant cases, the neural network will directly answer the query, providing a list of results,” the document states.

All users in the ChatGPT Team workspace will gain access to the feature through the chatbot application. Employees will not be able to discover content unavailable to them in Google Drive or Slack. Administrators are allowed to select which messenger channels and cloud service files will be synchronized.

Images in Google Drive files are not supported. The ChatGPT Connector can only “read” but not analyze data in Sheets and Excel. The service also cannot access personal, group, or bot messages in Slack.

Those wishing to participate in the beta test must provide the company with 100 documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and Slack channel conversations. The AI startup promises not to train models directly on this information but may use it to create synthetic data.

Previously, OpenAI recommended that the U.S. government ban AI products from the Chinese lab DeepSeek, as the project is “state-subsidized” and “state-controlled.”

Earlier, the company announced plans to charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI agents.