OpenAI is discontinuing its standalone AI browser experiment, ChatGPT Atlas, less than a year after its October launch, effective August 9. The company is integrating Atlas's browser-based agent features into a new desktop application, ChatGPT Work, which combines ChatGPT and Codex for office productivity. This new platform, powered by GPT-5.6, offers multi-step task reasoning, document generation, and integration with business applications like Slack and Microsoft Teams.
OpenAI is pivoting from a standalone AI browser to an integrated enterprise productivity platform, signaling a strategic focus on agentic workplace automation.