OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent embedded inside its flagship chatbot that aims to transform ChatGPT from a question-and-answer tool into an autonomous work platform capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks across users’ email, calendars, code repositories, and messaging apps.The product is powered by OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-5.6, and is designed to go far beyond generating text. ChatGPT Work can gather context from connected apps, files, and workflows to produce finished documents, spreadsheets, presentations, reports, and websites. The agent takes a stated outcome, breaks it into smaller steps, and stays with complex projects for hours, completing them independently.The launch marks OpenAI’s clearest attempt yet to reposition ChatGPT as a workplace platform rather than a chatbot — and it arrives at a moment of extraordinary financial significance for the company. Last month, OpenAI confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, initiating what could become one of the largest technology IPOs in history, with reported valuations clustering between $730 billion and $852 billion and annualized revenue that has blown past $25 billion.In a short demonstration and conversation with VentureBeat on Friday, Ty Geri, a product manager at OpenAI who helped build ChatGPT Work, said the product’s mission is to democratize the kind of agentic AI capabilities that OpenAI’s internal engineering tool, Codex, has already demonstrated. “What’s really exciting is we’ve seen how much Codex has been able to push the frontier of what we can get done with these AI tools, as opposed to just getting information or answers or guidance,” Geri said. “Our internal adoption of Codex is lit …
