# ChatGPT Work Is Live: OpenAI Merges Codex Into One App > Source: > Published: 2026-07-10 13:13:29+00:00 On July 9, OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Work — an autonomous agent that takes a goal, gathers context from connected apps, runs for hours, and delivers finished deliverables: documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and shareable web apps. The same day, the standalone Codex desktop app disappeared. It’s now one mode among three inside a new unified ChatGPT desktop application. One launch. Three products consolidated. And a direct shot at Claude Cowork, which went mobile just 24 hours earlier. What ChatGPT Work Does ChatGPT Work is not a chat window with more integrations. It’s an agentic pipeline. You give it an outcome — “track […] The post