OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, the assistant that automates work tasks and creates everything from presentations to web applications

OpenAI has launched its new service ChatGPT Work that, driven by the capabilities of GPT-5.6you can schedule, access tools and user workflow, as well as browse the web, to transform notes or drafts into finished work autonomouslywhether creating spreadsheets, presentations or web applications.

The company led by Sam Altman aims to offer a option with which to facilitate the daily work of usersthrough a wizard that can carry out any productivity task by itself, collecting the necessary information from the work environment and automating tasks.

This is the new tool ChatGPT Work, that mixes the capabilities of the Codex programming assistant to manage the computer and applications, with its new family of recently released GPT 5.6 (Sun, Earth and Moon) models.

With this, as the company explained in a statement on its website, ChatGPT Work gathers context of work information of the user, plan the approach desired based on the requested task and act directly with the tools of work, including everything from files to desktop applications, to create drafted documents, completed spreadsheets or presentations.

Therefore, the work assistant will be able to perform tasks directly in the applications, with over 1,400 plugins availabley access web browser already the common workflows of the user, all autonomously, resulting in ready-to-use documents.

Likewise, ChatGPT Work can also make work interactive and stay up to date with the ‘Sites’ functionwhich allows “turn ideas, plans and data into interactive websites and web applications” to, for example, share them with the work team.

This option is useful when creating dashboards, project tracking tools, release schedules, prototypes, or reports, and keeping them up to date as information changes.

In addition, the company has also detailed that users They will be able to start a task from ChatGPT Work on their smartphone and continue working in the same task later from the computereither in the web version or in the desktop application, since it will be done remotely.

Despite carrying out all these tasks autonomously, ChatGPT Work allows users to have the control at all timescreating specific tasks and monitoring updates to your actions. Likewise, before starting work, users can review the wizard’s approach by creating a step-by-step plan.

All in all, ChatGPT Work is now available to all users in the version of desktop for macOS. It will also arrive progressively for the version of windows desktopas well as for users subscribed to the planes Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise y Edu on the web and on mobile devices.

It must be taken into account that this new tool is available from the redesigned ChatGPT application where, in addition to the ‘chatbot’ usual, you can also find the Codex encoding agent and now ChatGPT Work.

Furthermore, since the redesign also add a built-in browser in the desktop ‘app’, the company has decided that will discontinue your Atlas web browser from August 9as stated by OpenAI developer James Sun in a post on X.

Atlas users have taught “how agents can help make browsing and working on the open web better,” now the technology company will apply this learning to its new products, Sun added.

Lastly, with all these updates, we are going to be sunsetting Atlas.

All these capabilities were built on what we learned from Atlas users who took a leap of faith on a new browser.

You taught us how agents can help make browsing and doing work on the open web better, and we…

— James Sun (@JamesZmSun) July 9, 2026

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