Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users
Greg Brockman confirms ChatGPT Chat and Work modes will merge by end of 2026
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9th — an agentic knowledge-work product bundling three new models, cloud agents, and a unified desktop app — which crossed 10 million users in three weeks. Greg Brockman has confirmed that the separate Chat and Work modes will merge by end of year, meaning the agentic experience will become the default for ChatGPT's ~1 billion weekly active users. This makes Work not a niche power-user product but the preview of how mainstream AI assistance will operate at scale.