OpenAI on Thursday unveiled ChatGPT Work, a new AI-powered productivity agent designed to help professionals create documents, presentations, websites and other work products using advanced coding capabilities without requiring programming expertise.
The launch marks OpenAI’s latest push into the fast-growing enterprise AI market, where technology companies are increasingly competing to build autonomous software agents capable of completing complex workplace tasks with minimal human supervision.
ChatGPT Work is powered by GPT-5.6, OpenAI’s newest and most advanced artificial intelligence model, which also made its public debut on Thursday after its release was delayed last month at the request of the U.S. government over national security concerns.
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AI Agent Designed For Everyday Professionals
OpenAI said ChatGPT Work combines the conversational abilities of ChatGPT with Codex, the company’s AI coding technology, enabling users to generate websites, presentations, reports, and other digital content through natural language instructions.
The product is aimed at business users who want to benefit from sophisticated coding capabilities without learning programming languages or interacting directly with developer-focused software.
OpenAI hopes to make advanced AI tools accessible to a much broader range of professionals across industries such as finance, consulting, education, healthcare, marketing, and legal services.
“You can apply the model’s ability to code to solve problems across every industry,” said Ty Geri, Product Manager for ChatGPT Work.
Geri described GPT-5.6 as “competitive with models that are far, far more expensive at twice the speed and much, much cheaper.”
The introduction of ChatGPT Work comes as competition among leading AI developers shifts increasingly toward enterprise software, where customers typically generate more predictable and higher-margin revenue than consumer subscriptions.
The product is OpenAI’s direct response to Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, launched in January, which similarly focuses on helping professionals automate multi-step workplace tasks.
Both companies are investing heavily in what is known as agentic AI—systems capable of planning, reasoning and executing sequences of actions rather than simply responding to prompts. Unlike traditional chatbots that primarily answer questions or generate text, these AI agents can complete end-to-end assignments such as creating business reports, analyzing data, building websites or coordinating workflows across multiple software applications.
The competition has become increasingly important as both OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for potential public offerings, making enterprise adoption a key metric for future investors.
One of OpenAI’s primary selling points is affordability. The company introduced GPT-5.6 in three different model sizes, allowing customers to choose between performance and cost depending on their needs.
OpenAI said the approach makes advanced AI capabilities available to a wider range of businesses that may have found previous frontier models prohibitively expensive.
The focus on pricing underlines growing concerns among corporate customers about the cost of deploying large language models at scale. As businesses move beyond experimentation and begin integrating AI into everyday operations, inference costs have become an important consideration.
Max Weinbach, an analyst at Creative Strategies, said the smallest version of GPT-5.6 delivers performance comparable to much larger models while costing significantly less.
“This is the first time where I’ve seen the small models complete these kinds of tasks,” Weinbach said.
According to Weinbach, the smallest GPT-5.6 model can perform tasks at roughly the same level as the largest version while costing about one-fifth as much. That could make enterprise AI deployments substantially more economical, particularly for organizations processing large volumes of requests.
ChatGPT Work builds on OpenAI’s growing portfolio of autonomous AI products. The company previously introduced Operator, which enables AI to interact with websites on behalf of users, and Deep Research, which conducts multi-step online research and analysis.
Those capabilities were later consolidated into the ChatGPT Agent for individual users.
For corporate customers, OpenAI also offers Workspace Agents, which automate internal business workflows. ChatGPT Work represents the next stage in that strategy by combining conversational AI, coding assistance and productivity features into a single application aimed at knowledge workers.
New Productivity Features
Alongside ChatGPT Work, OpenAI announced several additional products intended to broaden the platform’s capabilities. The company introduced a new desktop application for ChatGPT, giving users a dedicated interface outside the web browser. It also launched a hosted websites feature that enables users to build and publish websites directly through ChatGPT Work without relying on external hosting services.
The additions indicate that OpenAI has the ambition to position ChatGPT as a comprehensive productivity platform rather than solely a conversational assistant.
ChatGPT Work will begin rolling out on Thursday through both web and mobile platforms. Initial access will be available to Pro, Enterprise, and Edu subscribers before expanding to Plus and Business users over the following days.
The staged rollout follows OpenAI’s broader strategy of introducing new capabilities first to higher-tier subscribers before making them available to a wider user base.