OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Work on July 9, and it’s not a chatbot. You hand it an outcome, not a prompt. It pulls context from your connected apps and files, breaks the goal into steps, and grinds through them for hours, then hands back a finished doc, spreadsheet, deck, report, or even a website.
What it actually is
An autonomous work agent running on GPT-5.6. The key word is autonomous — it schedules its own steps and keeps working on any device, including your phone, without you babysitting each turn. Live today for Pro, Enterprise, and Edu; Plus and Business get it in the coming days.
Why it matters
This is OpenAI’s answer to Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, and the difference is architecture. Cowork only runs while your desktop app is open. ChatGPT Work lives in the cloud and stays online. GPT-5.6 Sol underneath is 54% more token-efficient on agentic coding, so long autonomous runs actually get cheaper. The workplace-automation war just went from features to always-on agents.
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