Did OpenAI Just Kill Glean?

ChatGPT now has new data connectors. Implications.

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In ChatGPT, you can now do “Deep Research” across all your private documents in Google Drive, Dropbox, etc, with data connectors and MCPs. Previously, the agent could only do research with public web data.

This means you can spin up Deep Research to write entire QBR reports or RFPs using various Google Sheets and other internal docs. Best of all, these report writing jobs can run in the background.

Considering writing MBRs and QBRs is like 30% of a middle manager’s job, this is massive.

So clearly, ChatGPT is on track to become “one stop shop" to write research reports on private plus public data. Since research and writing are the top business use cases of AI apps, this will have enormous competitive implications.

Note, this feature was hinted for ChatGPT enterprise tier even back in February, but to see it happen for the consumer tiers is something else.

But will this kill enterprise RAG apps, like Glean? And what does this mean for all vertical AI SaaS startups which are basically agentic RAG apps at their core?