OpenAI launches new ChatGPT Work tool and announces the shutdown of its AI browser Atlas

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new agentic system powered by the GPT 5.6 model family for handling professional tasks across apps, files, websites, and connected business services. Rather than being a separate model, Work combines ChatGPT’s reasoning with connectors, task scheduling, Computer Use, and artifact creation, gathering information from apps, files, websites, and company services, then complete complex assignments and produce finished spreadsheets, presentations, documents, reports, dashboards, and web apps based on provided instructions, templates, or reference files, so the results follow existing company formats.

The main difference from the previous ChatGPT experience is that Work is designed to execute broader tasks rather than mainly answer questions or generate individual pieces of content inside a conversation. It can plan several steps, retrieve context from services such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, SharePoint, email, calendars, CRM platforms, and project trackers, then take actions across those sources with limited supervision. Tasks can also run once, on a schedule, after a specific event, or while monitoring information for changes. It also supports scheduled and remote tasks, allowing assignments to be started from mobile and monitored later through the web or desktop app. ChatGPT Work is initially rolling out to Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users.

OpenAI is also integrating Codex into a new redesigned "super ChatGPT desktop app", bringing coding, research, and broader productivity features into a single hub. The app includes a built in browser and Computer Use capabilities for interacting with local files, applications, tools, and websites. The company has also announced that its standalone AI browser, Atlas, will be discontinued in favor of the new desktop app, which will incorporate several of Atlas’s features to support ChatGPT Work, with the browser currently scheduled to be deprecated on August 9.

Lastly, Sites has entered public beta, allowing users to turn information into interactive dashboards, project trackers, reports, internal portals, and other web apps that stay updated as their underlying data changes.