OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work Autonomous AI Agent

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, an AI agent embedded in ChatGPT that transforms the chatbot into an autonomous workplace platform. Powered by GPT-5.6, it connects to email, calendars, Slack, and code repositories to execute complex, multi-step tasks independently for hours. The agent can produce documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and websites by gathering context from connected apps and workflows. The launch represents OpenAI's most direct push to reposition ChatGPT as a workplace tool, arriving shortly after the company confidentially filed a draft S-1 registration statement.