India, Oct. 24 -- OpenAI announced its acquisition of Software Applications Incorporated, the company behind the Mac application Sky. The deal brings the Sky team and its core technology into OpenAI, with a vision to transform ChatGPT from a conversational chatbot into a fully capable desktop assistant that performs actions across a computer's operating system.

Sky is a natural language interface for macOS. It does not operate like a traditional app. Instead it "floats" over the desktop, allowing the Ai to understand the content on a user's screen and then take corresponding actions within applications. This functionality goes well beyond the current text-based responses users expect from ChatGPT.

Sky's ability to "see" what is on the s...