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OpenAI's Akshay Nathan on building ChatGPT Work: from Codex to 10M users
Akshay Nathan, OpenAI's core product engineering lead, discusses the development of ChatGPT Work, covering features including Sites, OpenClaw, Memory, Subagents, Finance, and No-Code capabilities. The interview traces the product's growth from Codex roots to 10 million users. The piece offers insider perspective on how OpenAI is operationalizing its AGI mission through enterprise-facing product development.
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OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work, a product offering positioned for professional and enterprise use cases described as supporting 'most ambitious work.' The announcement originates from OpenAI's official index, suggesting a formal product launch rather than a minor update. With 296 HN points and 141 comments, the community response indicates meaningful practitioner interest.
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OpenAI has released ChatGPT Work, an agent-oriented product tier within ChatGPT designed for extended, multi-step tasks including research, document creation, and cross-app workflows. It supports human-in-the-loop oversight, scheduled and triggered task execution, and integrates with connected apps and files. The rollout targets paid plans (Pro, Enterprise, Edu first; Plus and Business following), with a two-week admin-controlled preview for enterprise workspaces. Alongside this, OpenAI is replacing its App Directory with a Plugin Directory that bundles skills, apps, and templates for specific workflows.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, a long-horizon agentic product for professional tasks
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work, a new agentic product designed to take actions across apps and files and sustain multi-hour task execution toward a user-defined goal. The product positions ChatGPT as an autonomous work partner rather than a conversational assistant. This represents OpenAI's push into long-horizon, multi-step agentic workflows for professional use cases.
Introducing ChatGPT Agent
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT agent, a new capability that combines reasoning with tool use to autonomously complete multi-step tasks such as research, bookings, and presentation creation. The agent operates under user guidance, integrating thinking and acting in a unified workflow. This represents OpenAI's move to bring agentic capabilities directly into the ChatGPT product for general consumers.
Introducing ChatGPT
OpenAI announced ChatGPT, a conversational model trained to engage in dialogue, answer follow-up questions, acknowledge errors, challenge incorrect premises, and decline inappropriate requests. The model's dialogue format represented a significant step in making large language models accessible and interactive for general users. This November 2022 launch marked a pivotal moment in public AI adoption.
Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT
OpenAI is launching workspace agents in ChatGPT, powered by Codex, designed to automate complex multi-step workflows in the cloud. These agents are aimed at teams and enterprises, enabling work to scale across tools securely. The announcement positions ChatGPT as an agentic platform for organizational productivity rather than just a conversational assistant.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Sites for internal web app deployment in Business workspaces
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Sites preview for Enterprise and Edu workspaces
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Sites in preview for eligible ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu customers, enabling users to build and deploy lightweight full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript web apps via Codex within their workspace. Apps get hosted URLs, ChatGPT-based authentication, and file/data storage, with access restricted to workspace members. The feature is off by default and managed through admin RBAC controls.