OpenAI has its tentacles in hundreds of companies. Here's how it's making them more productive.

• In a not-so-distant future, every app will have an invisible layer of artificial intelligence.
• Developers are linking arms with OpenAI to access the large language models powering their apps.
• In doing so, OpenAI has its tentacles in hundreds of Silicon Valley startups.

OpenAI's artificial intelligence technology is now baked into hundreds of apps, making it one of the key levers that help companies and their developers be more productive.