Ep 816: ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 Sol: What’s New, 5 Overlooked Features and 1 Hot Take
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. OpenAI's new GPT-56 Sol is amazing and the best and most practical AI model in the world right now. But they actually just pulled off one of the smartest naming tricks I've seen in a while. See, they took the popular agentic coding platform Codex, soften the edges, got rid of that scary word code. and just repackaged it as ChatGPT Work, the super app. But everyone is rightfully paying attention to the new model itself, GPT 5.6 Sol, OpenAI's flagship release built for longer, cheaper, and more reliable execution of all type of work outputs. This sounds like one launch of two related products, but it's really a model story, a platform story, and a competitive story all wrapped up in one.
And there's some details that I think people are overlooking. So that's exactly what we're going to be tackling today on Everyday AI. So here is the big picture. OpenAI just released their new 5.6 models. Yeah, GPT 5.6 models. There's multiple and a product they're calling ChatGPT Work or the Super App. So the models themselves, well, by benchmarks and my limited use so far look and feel like real upgrades built for long running hands off professional work. So ChatGPT work because you're going to be hearing me say work and the words ChatGPT work a lot.
What is GPT‑5.6 Sol and why is OpenAI calling it a flagship model?
It's well, it's just kind of repackaging of some of the tools you didn't know you had inside of ChatGPT. And in case you did miss it, it's been a very busy like 36 hours for OpenAI because not only did they come out with probably now the best model in the world, the best harness and making it more accessible for more people, But they also brought what I think could be more impactful in the long run yesterday. No, two days ago. My gosh, time's flying by the new GPT live model, which brings that duplex two way voice interaction. But The big thing is GPT-5.6. So on today's show, you're going to learn why chat GPT work on the web is mostly just pretty packaging and where the real upgrade actually lives.
I'm going to tell you five overlooked features that people aren't really focusing on, and they probably should, including the full merge super app and the quiet death of Atlas, but don't worry. It's a good thing. And I'm going to give you my hot take. OpenAI's positioning play and why I think Anthropic should be very nervous of a model that's not GPT-5-6 Sol. Yeah, a different OpenAI model is going to cause Anthropic headaches. Let's get into it. Welcome to Everyday AI. If you're new here, my name is Jordan Wilson and well, do this every day. uh it's for you it's your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter unedited unscripted helping business leaders like you and me keep up with the ai updates i go through sleep deprivation so you don't have to you get to benefit from uh just the good stuff to grow your company and your career so it starts here but make sure you go to youreverydayai.com sign up for the free daily newsletter we're going to be recapping all of my random ramblings into the too long didn't listen version so make sure you go do that
and check out everything else that's happening in the world of ai in our newsletter all right so let's get to it we're talking about chat gbt work the new gbt 56 soul i'm going to tell you what's new five overlooked features and one hot take so GPT-56 Sol. If you missed the boat or maybe you've been on a long vacation and haven't listened to the podcast in two weeks, OpenAI already announced this. This wasn't new. We knew it was coming. They actually announced it about two weeks ago, but they had to work with the federal government now that we have kind of the permission slip, you know, way of doing AI here in the U.S. because of Anthropic. But Here it is brand new model.
How did OpenAI rename and repackage Codex into ChatGPT Work?
But the difference is, well, it is actually maybe a little more confusing in the long run because before we just had things like GPT five, five, right?
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