ChatGPT Work Is Live: OpenAI Merges Codex Into One App

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, an autonomous agent that completes tasks like creating documents and web apps, while merging the standalone Codex app into a unified ChatGPT desktop application. The move consolidates three products into one and directly competes with Anthropic's Claude Cowork, which went mobile a day earlier.

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