Ethan Mollick: OpenAI's product lineup is confusing and overlapping again
emollick · x · 2026-09-30
AI scholar Ethan Mollick criticizes OpenAI for re-fragmenting its product lineup after a brief unification around the ChatGPT app: Dot, Spaces, Pages, local/cloud ChatGPT Work, and Scheduled Tasks in the cloud and on your computer all overlap.
He says it's now unclear which tool has permission to do what on which devices — Dot can create threads and tasks in Codex/ChatGPT, voice mode also creates threads that sometimes persist and sometimes get abandoned, with no clarity on any of it.
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