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ChatGPT Workrolling out

An agent mode for longer, multi-step jobs. It works across connected apps and files and produces documents, sheets and slides. In the desktop app it can also use local files.

Which capability it is

The same thing at other vendors

An agent that works through a job on its own

Claude
Cowork, inside chat · computer use (research preview) · Dispatch · Claude Duet (research preview)Claude Cowork
Gemini
Task (formerly Spark; Google AI Pro or Ultra)
Microsoft Copilot
Copilot Cowork — GA, paid licence · Researcher · Analyst — paid licence

The same thing at other vendors

Working on files on your own computer

Gemini
Gemini app on Mac — local files per the June 30, 2026 release note
Microsoft Copilot
None — Cowork works on OneDrive and SharePoint
Perplexity
Personal Computer (Mac and Windows)
Grok
Grok Build (terminal)

Details

Status
rolling out
Where you find it
Work toggle on web and mobile; the ChatGPT desktop app
Part of
ChatGPT
Admin must turn it on?
In workspaces, each role has a "Work permission" that controls access.
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Where we teach it

We name agents in Name the parts and say plainly where their edges are. We don't teach building them, and we say why. The longer class teaches the alternatives: Encode a method so someone else runs it and Set it to run without you.

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