Understanding ChatGPT Work
Simon Willison dissects OpenAI's ChatGPT Work, explaining it is actually two products: a cloud agent and a local desktop variant descended from Codex.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9 and has iterated on it heavily since. Willison explains the product's confusing split architecture: a cloud version accessible via chatgpt.com and mobile apps, and a local version available through the ChatGPT desktop app (formerly Codex) that can access files and run programs directly on a user's computer. He describes the product as powerful but extraordinarily confusing, with the local variant feeling like Codex re-skinned.
- ChatGPT Work launched July 9 and has been rapidly iterated on
- Work Cloud runs via chatgpt.com and ChatGPT mobile apps
- Work Local runs in the ChatGPT desktop app, formerly called Codex
- Local variant can access files and execute programs on the user's machine
- Vendors
- OpenAI
- Products
- ChatGPTChatGPT WorkCodex
From the original article
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far.
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