OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Work Agent for End-to-End Tasks

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, an AI agent powered by Codex and GPT-5.6 that automates end-to-end tasks across apps and files, persisting for hours and running in the background. The agent can produce reports, spreadsheets, slides, or simple web apps, and integrates with services like Slack and Microsoft Teams. OpenAI reports over 700 million weekly active users and significant workplace adoption, with built-in enterprise controls.

For AI practitioners, agents that maintain state across apps change automation from single-turn prompts to end-to-end workflows and orchestration. Per reporting by Digital Trends, OpenAI introduced "ChatGPT Work," described in a tweet as "a new agent in ChatGPT powered by Codex and GPT-5.6" that can take actions across apps and files and persist with a project for hours. Digital Trends reports the agent can connect to user-chosen apps and files, assemble information, and produce completed deliverables such as reports, spreadsheets, slides, or simple web apps. Digital Trends also reports ChatGPT Work can continue running in the background, checking services like Slack or Microsoft Teams and updating documents automatically. OpenAI's usage guide states ChatGPT has over 700 million weekly active users and reports that over a quarter of U.S. workers, and 45% of those with postgraduate degrees, use ChatGPT for work, and it frames enterprise controls and governance as built-in features for workplace adoption.