OpenAI 获政府放行，推出 GPT-5.6 并发布「ChatGPT Work」

大约两周前，OpenAI 的 GPT-5.6 卷入监管风波——仅在"有限预览"期间向政府批准的组织提供——之后，公司获得了特朗普政府的公开推出许可。OpenAI 首席执行官 Sam Altman 称其为"我们生产过的最佳模型。"

为庆祝这一时刻，OpenAI 还在同日推出了一款新的 AI 智能体：ChatGPT Work。它被标榜为 ChatGPT 与 Codex 的结合体，让日常非技术用户也能利用 Codex 的能力完成非编码任务，并由 GPT-5.6 模型套件（Sol、Terra 和 Luna）驱动。"它可以从你选择的应用、文件和工作流程中获取上下文，并生成文档、电子表格、演示文稿和网页应用等成品材料，"OpenAI 在一篇博客文章中写道，并补充称，一个"统一插件目录"允许 ChatGPT 连接 Slack、Gmail、Google Drive、日历和 CRM 等工具。

全球范围内的 Mac 和 Windows 用户，包括免费 ChatGPT 用户，应该可以通过 ChatGPT 桌面应用立即使用 ChatGPT Work 和 GPT-5.6。在移动端和网页上，Pro、Enterprise 和 Edu 用户将率先获得访问权限，Plus 和 Business 用户将在"未来几天内"获得访问权限，OpenAI 还写道，"全球推广已经开始，并将在接下来的 24 小时内逐步实现全面可用。"

像 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 这样的公司，以及 Google（甚至最近的 Apple）等科技巨头，一直在竞相为普通人打造真正有用的 AI 智能体，尤其是在火爆的开源 AI 智能体 OpenClaw 出现之后。但结果参差不齐，目前而言，面向普通消费者的理想 AI 助手仍然遥不可及。

OpenAI 希望这款新产品——Anthropic 的 Claude Cowork（结合了其 Claude 和 Claude Code）的直接竞争对手——能推动其在竞争中取得领先。

OpenAI 特别寄望于 GPT-5.6 套件中最强大的 Sol，希望它能在编码、网络安全、科学以及电脑使用能力等方面树立"智能与效率的新标准"。在全行业面临资金紧缩和 AI 实验室成本向客户转嫁的抱怨声中，该公司还将该模型定位为竞争对手最强大模型的低成本替代品。

About two weeks after OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 was caught up in regulatory drama — rolled out only to government-approved organizations during a “limited preview” period — the company has received the Trump administration’s greenlight for a public rollout of the model. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it “the best model we have ever produced.”

To celebrate, OpenAI also unveiled a new AI agent on the same day: ChatGPT Work. It’s billed as a combination of ChatGPT and Codex, allowing the everyday non-technical user to take advantage of Codex’s capabilities for non-coding tasks, and it’s powered by the GPT-5.6 model suite (Sol, Terra, and Luna). “It can gather context from the apps, files, and workflows you choose and create finished materials such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and web apps,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post, adding that a “unified plugins directory” allows ChatGPT to connect to tools like Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, calendars, and CRMs.

Mac and Windows users worldwide, including free ChatGPT users, should have immediate access to ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 via the ChatGPT desktop app. On mobile and the web, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users will first get access, while Plus and Business users will receive access “over the next few days,” OpenAI wrote, adding that the “rollout is starting globally and will continue gradually toward full availability over the next 24 hours.”

Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as tech giants like Google (and even, recently, Apple), have been vying to clear new ground in the race to make AI agents actually useful for the average person, especially in the wake of the viral open-source AI agent OpenClaw. They’ve had varying results, and for now, the theoretical right-hand AI agent for the everyday consumer remains out of reach.

OpenAI is hoping that its new product, which is a direct competitor to Anthropic’s Claude Cowork (combining its own Claude and Claude Code), will push it ahead in the race.

OpenAI is especially banking on Sol, the most powerful of the GPT-5.6 model suite, to set “a new standard for intelligence and efficiency,” particularly when it comes to coding, cybersecurity, and science, as well as computer use capabilities. The company is also marketing the model as a lower-cost alternative to competitors’ most powerful models, amid complaints of an industry-wide money squeeze and AI lab costs being passed onto customers.