Just a few minutes after unveiling its new GPT-5.6 family — Sol, Terra, and Luna — OpenAI is back with another announcement. This time, it’s introducing ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent designed to do more than answer questions. Instead of helping with one task at a time, it can take on entire projects that span multiple apps, documents, and services.
If you’ve ever spent an afternoon jumping between different apps just to finish a single assignment, ChatGPT Work is trying to eliminate that back-and-forth. The idea is to describe the end goal and figure out the steps in between.
Give it a goal, then get out of the way
Powered by GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work can connect to the apps and files you choose, gather the information it needs, and produce completed work instead of just suggestions. That could mean drafting a report, building a spreadsheet, creating presentation slides, or even putting together a simple web app without you having to micromanage every prompt.
OpenAI says the experience works best with real-world jobs people already spend hours doing. Imagine asking it to review last month’s business expenses or gather everything you need before an important client meeting. Rather than starting from scratch every few minutes, you can watch the agent work, answer questions as needed, redirect it midway, or approve actions before it proceeds. The company is also pitching ChatGPT Work as capable of handling long, connected workflows. For example, it could analyze customer feedback, turn those findings into a marketing strategy, generate the supporting assets, and then adapt everything for different audiences without losing track of what happened in earlier steps.
Though, your AI doesn’t clock out when you do
Perhaps the most interesting feature is that it doesn’t necessarily stop when you close ChatGPT. Using Scheduled Tasks, Work can continue running in the background, checking connected services like Slack or Microsoft Teams for new information, updating documents or presentations automatically, and notifying teammates when something important changes. In theory, you could assign work before leaving the office and come back to a project that’s already moved forward. That’s a notable shift from the AI assistants most people are familiar with today.
ChatGPT Work is rolling out starting today on the web and mobile apps for Pro, Enterprise, and Edu subscribers, with Plus and Business users expected to gain access over the coming days. OpenAI is also releasing an updated ChatGPT desktop app for both Windows and macOS, bringing Chat, Work, and Codex together in one place. While the desktop app is available across all ChatGPT plans, including the Free tier, access to the new Work agent itself will depend on your subscription.
