OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you

Key Points:

• OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, an enhanced tool designed to handle longer, more complex tasks for hours, improving on the previous "Agent Mode" limitations that caused automated tasks to stop after a few minutes.
• ChatGPT Work can automate entire workflows, from customer research to marketing asset creation, while requiring user approval for important actions, and it integrates Scheduled Tasks to manage repetitive jobs on a schedule or triggered by events.
• The tool connects with workplace apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, and SharePoint via custom plugins, can access desktop files, and includes a built-in browser; the Atlas browser is being discontinued in favor of a new ChatGPT Chrome extension for web-native tasks.
• ChatGPT Work merges with OpenAI’s Codex coding platform but is billed separately with subscription plans up to $100 monthly, using a credit system that accounts for the higher usage of complex tasks, with spending controls available for enterprise and education users.
• The release coincides with the debut of the GPT-5.6 model, which offers improved cost-efficiency and performance, priced in tiers with the highest level costing $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens.