OpenAI Acquires Mac AI Startup Software Applications

OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Inc., the maker of Sky — an unreleased Mac desktop AI assistant that can see users’ screens and take actions across apps — and will bring the startup’s roughly 12-person team into its ChatGPT division. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Software Applications had raised about $6.5 million and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was an early investor. The deal was approved by OpenAI’s independent board. OpenAI said it will fold Sky’s deep macOS integration into ChatGPT and related agentic products, including the newly launched Atlas browser, to make the model more of an on‑screen collaborator. The acquisition is part of OpenAI’s broader push to embed AI into everyday computing and follows several other recent purchases, a move market observers say could boost investor interest in AI infrastructure and related tokens.