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Along with the release of GPT-5.6 today comes a new app that looks unremarkable at first, but is a one-stop-shop for all of OpenAI’s features.
The latest addition is called ChatGPT Work, which is billed as an agent that gathers information from your apps and workflows and turns them into spreadsheets, presentations, docs or PDFs and just about anything you want — even web apps.
It’s getting integrated into a much more interesting, upgraded ChatGPT desktop app that will combine Codex, Work, agentic browsing and the normal chat interface.
Enter the superapp
This is undoubtedly the much ballyhooed superapp that OpenAI has spent much of the year talking about — combining all of OpenAI’s offerings in one place.
There are 900 million weekly users of ChatGPT, and 5 million users of Codex. Of the latter, about 1 million users haven’t been using Codex for the intended coding and software engineering, but for normal work stuff, like gathering data from disparate sources and creating presentations.
A browser with plugins
This is where the new desktop app comes into the picture, with the eay access to all features. The Work agent also gets plugins to systems like Slack, Teams, Google Drive, SharePoint, email, calendars, CRMs and project trackers.
The inclusion of a browser in the interface gives you not only agentic browsing in the same place, but lets the Work agent integrate web data and tools into the workflow.
The integrated ChatGPT desktop app is available globally today for Mac, Windows, web and mobile for all plans, including Free. Codex users can simply update their app, and it will turn into the ChatGPT desktop app.
Read more: OpenAI’s presentation, The Verge. OpenAI’s installation guide. Discussion on r/Singularity.