TLDR;
- ChatGPT can now access Gmail and Google Drive for more context-aware responses.
- New integrations extend to both Google and Microsoft platforms, with enterprise features available for paid users.
- Teams can build custom connectors using a new protocol, offering even deeper integration.
- Memory updates across all tiers allow for smarter, more personalized assistance.
OpenAI has unveiled a major expansion of ChatGPT’s capabilities by enabling integration with Google Drive and Gmail. This update allows the AI assistant to pull context directly from a user’s email and files, delivering responses that are more informed and personalized. The feature, available to users on paid plans, aligns with OpenAI’s broader ambition of transforming ChatGPT into a truly intelligent assistant that understands and adapts to each user’s workflow.
ChatGPT Goes Deeper Into Workspaces
Beyond Google services, ChatGPT can also connect to Microsoft Outlook and Teams, offering a seamless way to consolidate information across platforms. The integration respects existing user permissions, ensuring secure access while maximizing productivity. For those on Team, Enterprise, and Education plans, added support for Dropbox, SharePoint, and Box enhances flexibility, making it easier to draw insights from multiple sources during a single interaction.
ChatGPT can now connect to more internal sources & pull in real-time context—keeping existing user-level permissions.
Connectors available in deep research for Plus & Pro users (excl. EEA, CH, UK) and Team, Enterprise & Edu users:
Outlook
Teams
Google Drive
Gmail
Linear
& more— OpenAI (@OpenAI) June 4, 2025
The Model Context Protocol, a new tool introduced alongside these upgrades, allows organizations to create custom data connectors. This gives businesses the power to link proprietary systems or niche applications to ChatGPT, turning the AI into a powerful node of institutional knowledge. Teams can now access internal data, web content, and third-party platforms without leaving their chat interface.
ChatGPT Brings Smart Features with a Personal Touch
For Mac users on the Team plan, a new recording feature is now available. ChatGPT can capture meetings or brainstorming sessions, transcribe them, identify key takeaways, and even convert them into structured plans or code. This enhancement transforms ChatGPT from a reactive tool into an active participant in collaboration, able to support everything from note-taking to software development.
Meanwhile, memory features continue to evolve. As of June 3, memory updates are rolling out to free users, offering limited short-term continuity. Paid users enjoy a more comprehensive experience, with ChatGPT referencing both saved preferences and broader chat history to provide increasingly relevant responses over time. Whether remembering your teaching style or preferred email format, ChatGPT becomes more intuitive the more it’s used.
Toward the “Super Assistant” Vision
OpenAI’s steady enhancements to ChatGPT’s functionality reflect a larger strategic goal. The company envisions the assistant as more than just a chatbot, it’s becoming a digital companion that understands your context across conversations, platforms, and projects. Earlier this week, insiders revealed OpenAI’s aim to build a “super assistant” that integrates seamlessly into a user’s digital life and serves as a smarter interface for the internet. Users will however remain in control of how ChatGPT uses memory.
Settings will allow anyone to disable or manage what the assistant remembers, ensuring that personalization never comes at the cost of privacy.
