OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 after government green light — and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’

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About two weeks after OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 was caught up in regulatory drama — rolled out only to government-approved organizations during a “limited preview” period — the company has received the Trump administration’s green light for a public rollout of the model.

To celebrate, OpenAI also unveiled a new AI agent on the same day: ChatGPT Work. It’s billed as a combination of ChatGPT and Codex, allowing the everyday non-technical user to take advantage of Codex’s capabilities for non-coding tasks, and it’s powered by the GPT-5.6 model suite (Sol, Terra, and Luna). “It can gather context from the apps, files, and workflows you choose and create finished materials such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and web apps,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post, adding that a “unified plugins directory” allows ChatGPT to connect to tools like Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, calendars, and CRMs.

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