# OpenAI's ChatGPT Work Agent Launches to Execute Multi-Hour Tasks

> OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Work, an agent mode built on its GPT-5.6 model line that is designed to run for hours on a single project rather than answer one prompt at a time. Announced July 9, it can create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and web apps, and take actions across the apps a user has connected, aiming to finish multi-step work with minimal supervision. The rollout starts with Pro, Enterprise, and Edu plans, with Plus and Business tiers following over the following days. Positioning it as a worker that completes projects, not a chatbot that assists, is a clear bid for the enterprise seat. The timing is pointed. ChatGPT Work lands shortly after Anthropic's Claude Cowork agent, and the two releases together mark an escalation in the race to sell autonomous agents into the workplace. The harder question, as always with long-running agents, is reliability: hours of unsupervised action multiply the ways a task can quietly go wrong.

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## Wortins' read

OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Work, an agent mode built on its GPT-5.6 model line that is designed to run for hours on a single project rather than answer one prompt at a time. Announced July 9, it can create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and web apps, and take actions across the apps a user has connected, aiming to finish multi-step work with minimal supervision. The rollout starts with Pro, Enterprise, and Edu plans, with Plus and Business tiers following over the following days. Positioning it as a worker that completes projects, not a chatbot that assists, is a clear bid for the enterprise seat. The timing is pointed. ChatGPT Work lands shortly after Anthropic's Claude Cowork agent, and the two releases together mark an escalation in the race to sell autonomous agents into the workplace. The harder question, as always with long-running agents, is reliability: hours of unsupervised action multiply the ways a task can quietly go wrong.

## Source

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