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OpenAI’s latest announcements reveal a strategy to turn ChatGPT into an interface for discovering and running applications, with unified sign-in, an enterprise marketplace, and agents capable of choosing tools and executing tasks. This model places the company in indirect competition with the traditional role of Apple’s and Google’s app stores.
Italy’s Bending Spoons agreed to buy Miro for $1.36 billion in cash, after the enterprise collaboration platform was valued at $17.5 billion in late 2021. The deal reflects the decline in SaaS company valuations since the remote-work boom, despite Miro continuing to generate recurring revenue and profits and maintain a large user base.