Developers of a product very close to Apple are now working at OpenAI: The company Software Applications Incorporated will become part of the ChatGPT parent company. The company announced this on its website at. The creators Ari Weinstein and Conrad Kramer, known from the Shortcuts app aka Shortcuts, are going to OpenAI together with their app Sky. As a result, it is expected that ChatGPT could be integrated much more deeply into macOS in the future than is currently the case through the official app.
Free, Apple, free again – now OpenAI
Weinstein and Kramer had initially developed the popular automation solution Workflow themselves. Apple found it so interesting that the company took it over without further ado in 2017, redesigned it and then integrated it into its systems – macOS, iOS, iPadOS and partly watchOS – as a shortcuts app. Kramer and Weinstein then stayed at Apple for a while: Kramer left in 2019, Weinstein in 2023. The two then founded Software Applications Incorporated, which then turned to the developers of an AI automation solution called Sky.
Sky was presented to the public for the first time in the summer of 2025, but only in the form of a website including demo videos. This now seems to have impressed OpenAI so much – including the still private code – that the AI company decided to take over. Sky combined elements of shortcuts with control via a chatbot. For example, you should be able to access the address book, the Messages app and many other Mac elements to automate them. With natural language, for example, you can demand that you get a calendar entry from e-mails or perform actions with open windows – apparently with every app on your computer. This is reminiscent of the context-sensitive Siri on the iPhone, which Apple will now probably bring in the spring.
“Hundreds of millions” of users targeted
It is still unclear what OpenAI intends to do with Sky – it is possible that the app will be released as planned, just directly by OpenAI. In a statement, Weinstein, who is CEO of Software Applications Incorporated, said his team has always wanted computers to become more powerful, customizable and intuitive. “With LLMs, we can finally put these pieces of the puzzle together.” That’s why Sky was developed. The app “flows” across the desktop “to help you think and create.” With the acquisition by OpenAI, he now hopes to “bring (our vision) to hundreds of millions of people”.
How much money the purchase cost was not initially known. In addition to Weinstein and Kramer, other employees will also go to OpenAI – including other people who once worked at Apple. OpenAI had just presented its first own browser, Atlas, which will initially only appear on macOS.
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