ChatGPT Can Now Read Your Files from Google Drive and Dropbox
OpenAI has integrated Google Drive and Dropbox with ChatGPT, allowing the AI to directly access and read your files from these services.
AI companies don’t just want their tools to answer your questions anymore. They want them to sit in your meetings, sift through your files, and keep track of your to-dos. More than just developing a chatbot, they want to build something closer to an actual assistant.
OpenAI’s latest update to ChatGPT moves it another step in that direction.
Announced on Wednesday, the AI tool will now be able to connect directly to third-party cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Box, making it possible to ask questions about documents you’ve already stored, without needing to copy and paste anything in.
Currently available for Team, Enterprise, and Education tiers, with support for other plans is on the way, you can ask it things like “What were our Q1 numbers last year?” or “How many ferry rides did I log during my Italy trip?”. OpenAI says the tool pulls only relevant information from the source and respects existing access controls within your organization.
Admins can go a step further using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), currently in beta, to link ChatGPT to internal tools like CRMs, wikis, or proprietary databases. With MCP, your AI assistant can respond using your data as if it were part of its own memory.
OpenAI is also debuting a new set of deep research connectors in beta for services like HubSpot, Linear, and some Microsoft and Google tools. They allow for more detailed research using company data along with public web sources, and are available to all paying users.
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Meanwhile, there’s also a new “record mode” feature, currently available to only Mac users on the Teams plan, that lets users capture meetings, voice notes, or brainstorms. ChatGPT transcribes and summarises everything, with time-stamped citations and action items. You can even export it all into Canvas, OpenAI’s tool for writing and code projects. Support for other plans is on the way.
These updates land at a time when just about every major tech company is trying to redefine what workplace AI should look like. Microsoft has been folding Copilot into Office apps like Word, Excel, and Teams, with features like AI-generated meeting recaps and email drafting. Google is doing something similar with Gemini, which is being integrated across Drive, Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Meet to provide summaries, action items, and suggested replies.
And it is part of OpenAI’s bigger plan to make ChatGPT the go-to tool for enterprise businesses - its biggest cash cow. Instead of just answering questions, OpenAI is now it’s deeply embedding ChatGPT in places where work actually happens.
But its enterprise journey didn't begin now. It launched its ChatGPT Enterprise service in 2023 and followed it up with Team plans in early 2024, boasting over 3 million paying business users—up a million since February. That kind of growth is happening in the middle of an arms race, with companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Anthropic all trying to capture the same high-value enterprise customer. OpenAI knows it has to keep moving.
