Log in Sign up
AI Agents Casap Raises $56 Million to Put AI Agents on Payment Disputes for More Than 100 Banks ChatGPT OpenAI Is Merging ChatGPT Chat and Work Tabs Into One Workspace With a Shared Token Budget News Ninety Robot Teams Climbed 3,100 Stone Steps on Mount Tai: Unitree G1 Overheated and Quit, a Suzhou Underdog Won Twice Business Anthropic Discloses $895.4 Billion in Committed Compute Spend as Amended S-1 Shows a $17 Billion Quarter and a Return to Operating Loss AI Agents 50 AI Agents Tried to Build a Civilization in Minecraft and Built a Bureaucracy Instead Security Nine of Ten AI Agents Raised Their Own Crypto Spending Limits by Reading the Approval Email Business Anthropic Carves Out Up to $3.5 Billion of Its IPO for Japanese Investors — More Than SpaceX Sold Them in Its $75 Billion Listing News First Energy Company, First Machine-Readable Rulebook: Abu Dhabi Signs Four OpenAI Deals Spanning ADNOC, Mubadala and Its Government AI Agents Casap Raises $56 Million to Put AI Agents on Payment Disputes for More Than 100 Banks ChatGPT OpenAI Is Merging ChatGPT Chat and Work Tabs Into One Workspace With a Shared Token Budget News Ninety Robot Teams Climbed 3,100 Stone Steps on Mount Tai: Unitree G1 Overheated and Quit, a Suzhou Underdog Won Twice Business Anthropic Discloses $895.4 Billion in Committed Compute Spend as Amended S-1 Shows a $17 Billion Quarter and a Return to Operating Loss AI Agents 50 AI Agents Tried to Build a Civilization in Minecraft and Built a Bureaucracy Instead Security Nine of Ten AI Agents Raised Their Own Crypto Spending Limits by Reading the Approval Email Business Anthropic Carves Out Up to $3.5 Billion of Its IPO for Japanese Investors — More Than SpaceX Sold Them in Its $75 Billion Listing News First Energy Company, First Machine-Readable Rulebook: Abu Dhabi Signs Four OpenAI Deals Spanning ADNOC, Mubadala and Its Government

OpenAI Is Merging ChatGPT Chat and Work Tabs Into One Workspace With a Shared Token Budget

ChatGPT · By: AIReport Admin · 1 hour ago · 👁 10
OpenAI Is Merging ChatGPT Chat and Work Tabs Into One Workspace With a Shared Token Budget

OpenAI has started rolling out a merged Chat and Work experience inside the ChatGPT desktop app, beginning with a select group of users. Files and plugins carry over, and ChatGPT and Codex will now draw from the same token allowance pool, with OpenAI cautioning that some heavy users may hit reset limits more often. Anthropic merged the Claude chat and Cowork modes into one interface in September.

OpenAI is collapsing the boundary between chatting with ChatGPT and delegating work to it. In an email to users, the company said it is merging the Chat and Work tabs inside the ChatGPT desktop experience, starting with a select group of users for feedback before a wider rollout.

"This will enable you to move from exploring an idea to having ChatGPT carry it through, all in one place," the email read. "You can bring in your files and plugins and ask ChatGPT to build a website, create a presentation, or do things for you on the web, while reviewing and guiding its work."

One detail will matter to power users: OpenAI said ChatGPT and Codex, which remains a separate experience in the desktop app, will now draw tokens from the same allowance pool. The company said the change will not affect most users, but "based on usage and model, some folks might need to wait for resets more frequently." It is the first time casual chat and the agentic coding product share a single budget.

The move is a cleanup as much as a strategy. The desktop app had grown into a maze of ChatGPT and Codex sections, with Chat and Work tabs nested inside the former, and users routinely losing track of where a project lived. The Work tab, introduced as an agentic workspace, will now be the same surface as the conversation itself.

The industry is converging on the same design. Anthropic merged Claude's chat and Cowork modes into a single screen in September, and Google has been pulling document editing and agentic actions directly into Gemini conversations. The chat window is becoming the operating surface, and every major lab is dismantling the separate "agent mode" it built only months ago.

The economics are the part to watch. A shared token pool makes heavy agent usage directly visible on consumer subscription plans, and OpenAI's own caution about more frequent resets suggests the company expects exactly that. Interface consolidation is easy; paying for it is where the friction will show.

Comments (0)

Log in to join the discussion

Log In

No comments yet