OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Work, a cloud-based AI agent that manages tasks across email, Slack and calendars

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 workplac