If ChatGPT started answering you with charts, side-by-side comparisons and little interactive tools this month, that’s GPT-6. OpenAI rolled it out to every ChatGPT plan in early October, free users included.
At a glance
- Paid plans (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise): GPT-6 Sol, starting October 7
- Free and Go plans: GPT-6 Luna, starting the next day
- Headline feature: Intelligent UI, which mixes text, visuals and interactive pieces into answers
- Also new: ChatGPT can start answering while it’s still thinking
What Intelligent UI actually does
Until now, ChatGPT mostly answered in paragraphs and bullet points. With Intelligent UI, the answer takes whatever shape fits the question:
- Ask it to compare two things and you may get a side-by-side layout.
- Ask how something works and you may get an interactive diagram.
- Ask for help with a calculation and it can build a small calculator or bill splitter right in the chat.
- Ask a simple question and you still get a simple text answer.
The other change you will notice is speed. Instead of making you wait while it “thinks,” ChatGPT can now begin answering and fill in more detail as it goes.
Not seeing it?
OpenAI says the rollout is gradual. If GPT-6 isn’t in your model menu yet, it may just not have reached your account. On company Business or Enterprise plans, an administrator may also need to turn it on.
A few ground rules for using it at work
A smarter assistant is still an assistant. If you or your employees use ChatGPT for business, keep these habits:
- Don’t paste in passwords, customer records or anything confidential unless your company has a business plan with the right privacy settings.
- Check the facts. Numbers, dates, laws and quotes deserve a second look before they go into an email or document.
- Decide what’s allowed. Even a one-page policy about which AI tools staff can use, and for what, prevents a lot of problems later.
GPT-6 arrives as Google pushes its own Gemini agent for work, so expect these tools to keep changing quickly.
Sources: 9to5Mac, OpenAI, OpenAI Help Center.
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