NEW ChatGPT Work is the Claude Cowork Killer? (Full Breakdown)

Open AI just dropped chat GPT work, and this is their version of Claude co-work. This is basically the Codex app, but for non-technical people. And we could access this in a couple of different places. We can use this in the chat GPT web app, as well as the desktop app and the mobile app. So, in this video, I'm going to go over everything that is new with this release. I'm even going to compare it to Claude co-work, because some people are going to call this the Claude co-work killer. So, we're going to put it to the test. So, if you are a co-work user or a chat GPT user, this video is going to be extremely relevant for you. So, without further ado, let's dive right in. Now, I do want to quickly mention that they also launched the GPT 5.6 model, which is their newest large language model. And this is what is actually powering chat GPT work. So, on top of this new way to interact with chat GPT, we also get a new more powerful model. Now, let's talk about where we can use this. So, as you can see right here, I'm on chat.openai.com, which is their web app. And this is the interface that we're going to see right off the bat. And at the very top, you can see that it says chat, and there is now this work button right here. If I click on work, we're going to see a couple of different things. So, we have our normal text box here, and then it allows us to work inside of specific projects. And then we could see all of our connectors right here. So, any of the apps we want to connect to. Then we have the 5.6 model that is selected. We could toggle between 5.6 teralight, which is their fastest model, all the way up to 5.6 sole ultra, which is their most capable model. The next place we could use this is the chat GPT mobile app, as you could see right here pulled up. And so, how we are able to access this is when we pull up a new chat, we're going to see chat at the very top. We're going to click on that, and we're going to click on work. This now brings us to chat GPT work, and we could begin performing different tasks here. It even gives us a couple of different test tasks that we could run, and then we could also select which model we want to use. Now, I do want to mention that anything that we do on the chat GPT app on our computer, we can do on our mobile app as well. So, you could see that I generated that image with that skill I uploaded on my computer, and I can access this chat directly on my phone. So, they sync between our different devices. And this is actually a feature that Anthropic just released into Claude Co-work literally yesterday. They added Claude Co-work for mobile, which basically allows you to sync any Co-work task from your phone to your computer as well. Now, the next place we could use this is inside of the ChatGPT desktop app. And the reason that I'm showing this right here and not me inside of this app is because for whatever reason, I don't have access to this right now on my desktop app. But as you can see on the left, we have ChatGPT work toggled on. And then we can also select different folders on our computer to work inside of just like you can do inside of Claude Co-work. Now, to show this live in action, I came here and I gave it the task, "Give me a morning briefing HTML." What it did is it went ahead, it looked through my Google Calendar, my Gmail, even looked at Denver's weather and different creator priorities for me. And then it gave me this HTML here that I could pull up just like I could do inside of Claude Co-work. But inside of ChatGPT work, this is not called an artifact like we're used to inside of Claude. This is called a site. That is what ChatGPT calls this. So, basically it just shows good morning, Brock. It shows my main things for me to tackle today. Shows everything on my calendar. And then it even gives me a decision filter right here. Next up, I want to talk about the similarities between ChatGPT work and Claude Co-work that we are so used to using. As well as we're going to talk about Codex and Claude Code and how it compares and stacks up to those as well. And then we're going to talk about whether or not this replaces your need for using Claude Co-work if you've already set up a system that's working for you there. Then I'll show you a couple more use cases that you can test out to understand the capabilities of this. So, first of all, we have Claude Co-work, which has skills, live artifacts, and scheduled tasks. Well, ChatGPT work is basically the exact same thing. We have skills, we have sites, which is exact same thing as live artifacts, and then we also have scheduled tasks that we could run inside of ChatGPT work. And if you don't know what Claude Co-work is, Claude Co-work is the non-technical version of Claude Code. So, instead of using Claude for coding tasks, we could have Claude work inside of the folders and files on our computer. So, it could really do the work that we can do on our computer for us. Now, ChatGPT work is the exact same thing. It is basically just Codex for non-techies. And if you don't know what Codex is, Codex is OpenAI's agentic AI platform, very similar to Claude code. It's really powerful. You could build specific agents, sub-agents, run scheduled tasks, etc. But, it's geared more towards developers. And so, now inside of ChatGPT work, we kind of get that same firepower as Codex. Now, if you are a Claude user, you're probably asking like, "Brock, have I wasted the last 6 months building inside of Claude Co-work since ChatGPT work is now out?" And to answer that question very simply, if you ever did want to switch from Co-work to Work, it's very simple to do because they work fundamentally the same. So, for example, inside of Claude Co-work, we build specific skills, which are different automations that our agents can run because they are just a clear set of instructions for an agent to do a specific task. And if you're anything like me, you've probably accumulated 10, 20, 50 different skills that you run daily inside of Claude. Now, the good thing is, since these are skill.md files, we can plug these directly into ChatGPT work. So, we could migrate if we want to. Now, in order to show you what I mean, here is a Claude skill that I've created called Explainer Infographic. So, this is a set of instructions in order to generate explainer images, and I've crafted this the last couple of months inside of Claude Co-work. Now, I'm going to show you how simply I could take this from Claude and upload it into ChatGPT work and get the exact same output since it's the same set of instructions for the specific task. So, I'm just going to come over here, click on download skill. I'm going to save it to my desktop. And then from here, I'm just going to pull up ChatGPT work. And in order to access your skills inside of ChatGPT, we're going to come over to the left-hand side where it shows plugins. And then here, we're going to click on skills. You can see I have a couple already added, but I'm just going to click add, click upload from your computer, and then I'm going to drag in that skill MD file that we just downloaded from Claude. Now, just like that, we have the explanatory infographic skill uploaded. And if I click on it, it's that exact same set of instructions that we saw earlier in Claude. Now, in order to run this, I could just click at and then type in explanatory infographic. Then let's just say, I want you to generate an infographic explaining how ChatGPT work works. And so now it's going to run and generate this image for me. And the best part is, since I'm using ChatGPT instead of Claude, ChatGPT has a native image generation tool. So it's able to generate the image without having to use something like Higgsfield, for example. Because before we would have had to add a specific connector that allows us to generate images, but ChatGPT has this feature built in. And here we go, here is the output. This is exactly what this would look like inside of Claude, because it's using the same skill. Now, just like Claude, we can work inside of the different applications we use. So whether we use things like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, etc., we could pull information from there, as well as send emails and stuff like that. So instead of these being called connectors, they are called plugins. So let me show you how to add one very quickly. So you're going to click on this little plugins button, click connect plugins. I'm going to click on browse all plugins. And from here, we could select any of the different ones that we use. Now, let's say there's an app you want to connect to in particular that you can't find right here. So I'm going to show you a hack on how you can do that. So we're going to use something called the Zapier MCP. If you want to try it out, there's a link in the description below. If you don't know what this is, this is a platform that allows you to connect to 9,000 plus different apps. And if you're not using it honestly, I think you're missing out on some of the powers of using Claude and now ChatGPT work. So in order to set up an MCP server and connect to any of those 9,000 different apps, there's a couple things we need to do. Next, we're going to come to plugins and then under plugins, click this plus button. From here, we're just going to add the name Zapier. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to come to Zapier MCP, click on new MCP server, click ChatGPT, click this button to turn on developer mode. So I'm just going to scroll down, make sure this is enabled as well as this button right here. And then just copy this URL. We're just going to paste this in, click understand, and then click create. Then from here, we just have to sign in to our Zapier account, and then we should have it installed. Then inside of that MCP server, we could just add any of the apps we want. For example, I use Beehiiv because this is an app that I use to run my email marketing, and I can't connect to this directly inside of ChatGPT. So, I could come and click add apps and add any of these, and we could have them added in seconds. Now, next up, we could run scheduled tasks directly inside of ChatGPT work. So, we could run things like daily email briefs, email monitor, AI content trend scanner, and basically any of these different automations we have inside of Claude we can migrate directly to ChatGPT. Now, let's talk about probably the elephant in the room. Is it necessary for you to switch over to ChatGPT work instead of using Claude Co-work? And the answer is no. Since these do both work fundamentally the same, you could work in specific folders on your computer with different skills and scheduled tasks, etc. You can pick and choose which platform you want to use. So, for example, if a new model comes out from OpenAI that you really want to test because it's more capable than the latest Anthropic model, you can switch over to the ChatGPT work app and test it out compared to Co-work. So, as we continue to build out our operating systems in either of these different applications, they aren't necessarily stuck to that platform in particular. And there we have it, that is ChatGPT work. Hopefully, this video answered some questions. For me personally, I am a Co-work power user. So, yes, it is cool testing this out with the newest models from Anthropic to see how capable it is, but I personally I'm probably going to stick to using the Claude ecosystem since I just like the way it works. But, do not worry. If you do want to migrate, it's very easy as I mentioned in this video. Anyways, let me know your thoughts in the comments. Are you going to switch? Subscribe to this channel for more content like this, and I'll see you in the next video.