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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish the job

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OpenAI has spent two years telling people that ChatGPT can answer almost anything. With its latest release, it wants ChatGPT to finish the job instead. The company has introduced ChatGPT Work, an agent inside ChatGPT that it says can take action across a user’s apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into completed work.

According to OpenAI, the agent can gather information across a person’s apps and workflows to produce finished materials such as sheets, slides, docs and web apps, breaking complex projects into smaller steps it completes on its own.

It is powered by GPT-5.6, the frontier model that launched the same day as part of a broad rollout that cleared US government testing, which OpenAI says makes ChatGPT state of the art at reasoning through multi-step tasks and at producing materials that follow a user’s own templates and reference files.

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