OpenAI Merges ChatGPT with Codex, Launches ChatGPT Work for Businesses

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on Thursday, a new agentic mode inside ChatGPT that, rather than just answering questions, carries out entire office tasks on its own. The user provides a general goal, and the system picks the right tools, searches connected apps, and delivers a finished document, spreadsheet, presentation or working website.

What sets the new feature apart from existing ChatGPT capabilities is that it doesn't stop at a single answer. The agent can connect to workplace apps such as Slack, Microsoft 365 or Google Drive, pull the context it needs from them, and turn that into a finished work product, anything from a report to a ready-to-publish website that can be shared immediately.

Codex Behind the Scenes

A key part of ChatGPT Work is its use of Codex, OpenAI's internal system for generating and running code, as the execution engine. In practice, this means an employee with no coding experience can hand off a task that requires writing a script or building a simple app or website, and the agent will do it behind the scenes without ever showing the underlying code.

The company also rolled out a new ChatGPT desktop app and a hosted-websites feature that lets users build and publish sites directly from the chat interface. That pushes ChatGPT further from a conversation tool toward a full-fledged work environment.

The Race for the Employee's Desktop

The ChatGPT Work launch is a response to moves by rivals. Anthropic had earlier released Claude Cowork, an agent capable of independently planning and executing multi-step tasks, and Microsoft followed suit with Copilot Cowork. According to reports from the US market, these launches rattled investors worried that AI agents could start genuinely replacing entire categories of office work, triggering sell-offs in stocks of companies in sectors most exposed to automation.

For OpenAI, it's also part of preparations for a planned IPO. The company has spent months shifting its focus away from being a simple chatbot toward a platform for teamwork and agentic tasks, betting that business subscriptions, not individual users, will be the main source of revenue in the coming years.

What It Means for Polish Companies

For Polish IT and operations departments, this is another tool to test alongside Claude Cowork and Copilot Cowork, this time with access to Codex as the execution engine. Companies already using Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace can connect the agent directly to their existing resources, which lowers the barrier to entry but also raises questions about control over what the agent does with company data without real-time oversight.

For now, ChatGPT Work is available in the US and select markets for the highest subscription tiers, so broader testing at Polish companies will only be possible once it expands to Plus and Business plans, which is expected in the coming days.

Sources: BNN Bloomberg (bnnbloomberg.ca), The Tech Portal (thetechportal.com), Republic World (republicworld.com)