OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent designed to deliver well beyond answering questions. It will take action across a user's apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work. The launch arrives alongside the public rollout of GPT-5.6, OpenAI's latest model family, and a merged desktop app that folds Codex directly into ChatGPT.
ChatGPT Work is built for extended, multi-step assignments rather than one-off prompts. It can pull information from connected apps, generate spreadsheets, presentations, documents, and web apps, and keep working for hours by breaking larger projects into smaller steps.
A new Unified Plugins Directory bundles third-party integrations including Google Drive, SharePoint, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, Adobe, Zoom, LinkedIn, GitHub, and Dropbox, with users able to invoke a specific plugin using an "@" mention or let ChatGPT decide which data source is relevant on its own.
A Scheduled Tasks feature lets the agent keep projects moving even when a user is away, such as converting new Slack or Microsoft Teams messages into updated documents and flagging important changes to a team automatically.
Powering the new agent is GPT-5.6, introduced under a naming scheme where the number marks the model generation while Sol, Terra, and Luna represent separate capability tiers. Sol is OpenAI's new flagship model, achieving what the company calls state-of-the-art results in coding, knowledge work, cybersecurity, and science while using fewer tokens than prior frontier models.
Terra matches GPT-5.5's performance at roughly half the cost, and Luna is the fastest, most affordable tier. API pricing runs $5/$30 per million input/output tokens for Sol, $2.50/$15 for Terra, and $1/$6 for Luna.
OpenAI is also merging its standalone Codex coding app into a single updated ChatGPT desktop app for Mac and Windows, with the previous app renamed ChatGPT Classic. Existing Codex users keep their projects and settings after updating. OpenAI says more than 5 million people already use Codex weekly, with over 1 million using it for tasks outside software development, a trend the company is leaning into as it pushes AI agents into sales, finance, and marketing workflows.
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ChatGPT Work started rolling out on July 9 for Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users on web and mobile, with Plus and Business access set to arrive in the next few days. The updated desktop app is available globally across all plans, including Free.
On security, OpenAI has built in an auto-review system that checks sensitive actions before they run, which it says blocked all attempts to extract protected data during internal adversarial testing, though this hasn't been independently verified.
Enterprise and Edu admins get centralized controls over connected tools and sensitive actions, plus a Compliance API for visibility into ChatGPT Work's activity.
ChatGPT Work reflects the next stage of enterprise AI, shifting from answering questions to completing real tasks. Its long-term success will depend not only on advanced capabilities but also on trust, accuracy, and how effectively organizations integrate AI agents into everyday workflows.