Figma signage seems on the New York Stock Exchange in New York as the corporate prepares for its shares to start buying and selling on July 31, 2025.
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Figma shares jumped greater than 15% on Monday after the design software program vendor’s expertise was promoted by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in an onstage demo at his firm’s annual DevDay convention in San Francisco.
Altman mentioned Figma’s integration into ChatGPT, which has over 800 million month-to-month customers. He confirmed how third-party functions might plug in with OpenAI’s Apps SDK, or software-development framework.
“When someone’s using ChatGPT, you’ll be able to find an app by asking for it by name,” Altman mentioned. “For example, you could sketch out a product flow for ChatGPT and then say, Figma turn this sketch into a workable diagram. The Figma app will take over respond and complete the action.”
The rally for Figma, at its excessive level, was the steepest because the day of the corporate’s public market debut on the New York Stock Exchange in July.
Figma has been ramping up its own tools for engaged on app and web site designs utilizing generative AI fashions from OpenAI and different suppliers.
Subscribers to merchandise that connect with the Apps SDK will be capable to log in with out leaving their ChatGPT conversations, Altman mentioned. He mentioned folks engaged on merchandise in Figma can even launch the FigJam software to maintain engaged on improvement concepts. Apps SDK relies on the Model Context Protocol, an open commonplace that OpenAI rival Anthropic introduced final yr.
Software builders will be capable to submit apps for assessment later in 2025, Altman mentioned.
Over time, OpenAI will supply some ways to generate income by means of third-party integrations, Altman mentioned. Last week OpenAI announced a feature permitting folks to purchase merchandise listed on Etsy by means of ChatGPT.
