OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Work, a new productivity-focused agent embedded inside ChatGPT that can autonomously execute tasks across corporate applications, files and workflows. The launch marks one of the company’s most significant pushes yet into workplace automation as it seeks to reposition ChatGPT from a question-answering assistant into a general-purpose enterprise productivity platform.
ChatGPT Work is designed as a productivity agent for non-coders, allowing employees to describe broad goals that the system then breaks into smaller actions and completes over extended sessions. Powered by OpenAI’s latest GPT‑5.6 model family, the agent can pull context from connected apps, internal documents and existing workflows to generate finished outputs such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations and web applications, without requiring users to write code or manage complex prompts.
OpenAI is positioning the tool squarely at professional users who want continuous, agentic automation rather than one-off responses. The company says ChatGPT Work can remain engaged with a project for hours where needed, iterating on materials in the background while users focus on other tasks, and then returning completed work products inside the ChatGPT interface.
To support the new agent, OpenAI has also launched a redesigned ChatGPT desktop application for Mac and Windows that consolidates chat, coding and browsing into a single client. The unified app brings together the main ChatGPT interface, the Codex coding agent and an integrated web browser, effectively turning the desktop client into what OpenAI describes as an enterprise “super app” for AI-assisted work.
As part of this consolidation, the previously separate Codex application is being folded into the new desktop experience, while the Atlas browser is set to be deprecated by August 9. The desktop client also supports task scheduling from mobile devices, enabling users to assign work to ChatGPT Work remotely and track progress when they return to their desks.
ChatGPT Work is rolling out first to Pro, Enterprise and Edu subscribers on the web and mobile, with Plus and Business customers to follow in the coming days. On the desktop app, OpenAI is making the three primary modes Chat, Work and Codex accessible across all plans, including the free tier, aligning the super app experience with a broad slice of its user base.
The launch comes as OpenAI, which is preparing for an initial public offering, faces intensifying competition from Anthropic and other AI firms in the enterprise segment. Alongside ChatGPT Work and the desktop redesign, the company is broadly releasing its GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna models after a brief US government-requested delay, expanding access to the models that underpin its latest automation and productivity features.
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