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As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, a long-running agent for office work

Alongside GPT-5.6 on July 9, 2026, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, an agent powered by Codex and GPT-5.6 that takes a goal, plans, pulls context from the user's apps and files and works for hours to deliver finished docs, spreadsheets, slides and web apps.

## Key facts
- Launched July 9, 2026, powered by Codex and GPT-5.6 (Sol as the operating model)
- Can act across the user's apps and files and spend hours on a project; asks for approval before sensitive actions
- Outputs: documents, spreadsheets, presentations, web apps
- Rollout: Pro, Enterprise and Edu first (web and mobile) on July 9; Plus and Business over the following days
- Sept 23, 2026: voice conversations added to Work (create documents/presentations by voice)
- GPT-6 Sol and Luna became available in ChatGPT Work on Sept 22, 2026

## What happened

OpenAI introduced **ChatGPT Work**, an agent mode in ChatGPT aimed at business professionals. Given a goal, it plans the steps, gathers
context from connected tools, and executes multi-step projects over hours, producing finished artifacts (docs, sheets, slides, web apps).
Press coverage framed it as OpenAI's answer to Anthropic's Claude Cowork and as a push into workplace AI.

## Why it matters

Marks OpenAI's move from chat assistant to a general long-horizon "do the work" agent for knowledge workers, built on the Codex agent stack.
By September it became the primary surface for new models (GPT-6 Sol/Luna launched "in ChatGPT Work and Codex").

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 70 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 9 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): 100 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 39 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [Bloomberg: OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Work agent to field tasks for hours](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/openai-unveils-chatgpt-work-agent-to-field-tasks-for-hours) (bloomberg.com, press)
2. [BNN Bloomberg: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work](https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/artificial-intelligence/2026/07/09/openai-launches-chatgpt-work/) (bnnbloomberg.ca, press)
3. [Axios: OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work](https://www.axios.com/2026/07/09/ai-openai-gpt-release) (axios.com, press)
4. [Introducing ChatGPT Work, powered by Codex and GPT-5.6 (OpenAI, YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq45rvPGNHs) (youtube.com, video)
5. [Releasebot: OpenAI release notes](https://releasebot.io/updates/openai) (releasebot.io, discussion)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-09-22: [OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at half the price of GPT-5.6](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-22-gpt-6-sol-luna/index.md)
- 2026-07-09: [OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6 after government-gated preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-gpt-5-6-sol-terra-luna/index.md)
- Archived: 2 videos, listed in https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-chatgpt-work/index.json