ChatGPT's Intelligent UI generates tools on demand, rattling the App Store
A commentary piece by Lynn Yang, republished by Huxiu AI, argues that OpenAI's GPT-6 update gave ChatGPT a feature called Intelligent UI: when asked about business scenarios such as how revenue changes with user scale, conversion and pricing, ChatGPT no longer returns only prose but builds an interactive widget — a "paid content revenue simulator" with sliders whose outputs update in real time — without being asked to make a tool. The author also had it generate a three-city clock and a China-US holiday calendar, saved them as standalone web pages, and noted that Google had shown similar generative-UI capability as an experimental Dynamic View in Gemini 3 last November. The piece contends that putting this into ChatGPT, which it says has over 1.2 billion weekly active users, will accelerate adoption, and that software is shifting from pre-built products toward on-demand generation that could erode the App-centric iPhone ecosystem and the App Store's central position.
If generated interfaces become a routine way ChatGPT answers, some app discovery and usage could shift from app stores to conversational assistants.