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OpenAI on Thursday announced ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent powered by its latest flagship AI model. GPT-5.6is designed to automate workplace tasks as the company ramps up its enterprise AI efforts amid fierce competition from rivals.
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ChatGPT Work, powered by GPT-5.6, can generate websites, reports, spreadsheets, presentations, and other documents by capturing context from users’ connected apps and files, making them available across the ChatGPT platform on web, mobile, and desktop.
OpenAI has released three versions of GPT-5.6. Sol is the most powerful model, Luna is optimized for speed, and Terra is designed to balance performance and efficiency for everyday use.
The announcement comes months after Anthropic’s Claude Cowork and highlights the growing competition among AI companies to develop autonomous workplace agents that can perform complex workplace tasks with minimal human input.
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OpenAI’s latest AI model is “54% more token efficient in agent coding,” CEO Sam Altman told CNBC. “Every company right now is thinking about their spend and the value they get in exchange for AI.”
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AI companies are increasingly shifting their focus from chatbots to autonomous “agents” that can perform multi-step tasks. Over the past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce have all introduced AI-powered workplace tools aimed at helping companies automate tasks such as coding, research, document creation, and data analysis. The release comes amid increased government scrutiny of powerful AI models. Axios OpenAI reported that it had delayed the release of GPT-5.6 at the request of the Trump administration. Altman said. CNBC The company said it has made “many changes” after “working collaboratively” with the government, and that the government’s technological capabilities are “excellent.” The reported delays follow similar government engagements with other frontier AI developers, including Anthropic, as policymakers pay close attention to security, privacy, and the broader risks posed by increasingly capable AI systems.
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