OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 and 'ChatGPT Work,' an Autonomous Office Agent, and Lifts Government Access Limits
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OpenAI began rolling out its GPT-5.6 series (Sol, Terra, Luna) on July 9 and paired it with ChatGPT Work, an autonomous agent that executes multi-step office tasks rather than just answering prompts. Sam Altman told CNBC the model is 54% more token-efficient on agentic coding, and the release opens the general workplace agent to everyone after weeks of US government restrictions on frontier models.
Our Take
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work turns AI from a chatbot you consult into a coworker that runs your office tasks, so a knowledge worker's real job becomes directing and vouching for the agents, not doing the busywork.
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