OpenAI follows GPT-5.6 with ChatGPT Work, an agent that runs your apps
A day after GPT-5.6 went GA, OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Work: an in-ChatGPT agent that works across Slack, Teams, Drive, and email for hours at a stretch, metered like Codex.
GPT-5.6 spent its first twelve days behind a government gate
Before the public launch, GPT-5.6 sat in a preview limited to about 20 government-vetted partners under the new US frontier-AI oversight process. The White House disputes calling the release an approval.
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 as a three-model family: Luna, Terra, and Sol
GPT-5.6 hit general availability July 9 in three sizes, priced $1 to $5 per million input tokens, with a 1M context and tool calling that writes its own orchestration code.
ChatGPT's voice mode gets a new brain that can phone a bigger one
OpenAI's GPT-Live replaces the ChatGPT voice model and can hand harder questions to GPT-5.5 in the background, keeping the conversation going while it waits for the answer.