New Delhi: OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent designed to automate workplace tasks by combining ChatGPT with its coding agent Codex, intensifying competition with Anthropic and Microsoft in the rapidly growing enterprise AI market.
Available on desktop from Thursday for users across all ChatGPT plans, the feature will roll out to web and mobile for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu users over the next few days, the company said.
Unlike a conventional chatbot, ChatGPT Work is positioned as an AI co-worker capable of pulling context from connected apps, files and business tools to create presentations, reports, spreadsheets, websites, analyses and project documents.
The product integrates with workplace applications such as Google Drive, Google Calendar, Slack, Outlook, SharePoint and Gmail, enabling users to generate deliverables without switching between multiple tools. It can also automate recurring work, monitor projects for updates and seek user approval before completing actions.
OpenAI said users can assign goals such as preparing weekly leadership briefs, analysing survey responses, drafting email replies, comparing sales pipelines, building project trackers or creating launch documents by combining information from calendars, documents, spreadsheets and team conversations.
The launch significantly expands OpenAI’s push into enterprise productivity, where AI companies are increasingly competing to become the default workplace assistant.
The announcement comes amid intensifying rivalry with Anthropic, whose Claude Cowork agent, launched earlier this year, is designed to autonomously plan and execute multi-step tasks. Microsoft is also expanding similar capabilities through its Copilot offerings.
Alongside ChatGPT Work, OpenAI also introduced GPT-5.6, its latest family of AI models, and a hosted websites feature that allows users to build and publish websites directly through ChatGPT Work.
The rollout follows a brief delay last month after the US government requested OpenAI limit access to GPT-5.6 over national security concerns linked to advanced AI models.
The company initially restricted access to a small group of vetted partners before proceeding with a broader launch. Similar restrictions had also temporarily affected Anthropic’s latest frontier AI models before they were lifted.
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