ChatGPT got GPT-6, but you can't use it in Chat — confused?

ChatGPT just got GPT-6 , except there’s a catch: you can’t actually use it in Chat.

If that sentence makes absolutely no sense to you, I don’t blame you.

Until now, you could use ChatGPT quite happily without giving much thought to the distinction between Chat and Work functionalities.

I certainly did.

It was just that little slider at the top of the screen I never bothered with.

I suspect most of you are the same.

Chat was where I talked to ChatGPT, while Work was something sitting alongside it that I could largely ignore because the Chat setting let me do almost everything I wanted.

GPT-6 changes that.

OpenAI’s newest model has arrived in ChatGPT, but instead of appearing in the familiar model picker on the right hand side of the prompt bar, GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna are available in Work and Codex only.

So, naturally, the first thing I did was go looking for them.

And somewhere between opening Work, figuring out what OpenAI actually expects me to do there, and finally getting my hands on GPT-6, I realized this launch is about more than a new model.

OpenAI has just made the difference between chatting with ChatGPT and asking it to work for you in a way it never really did before.

When to Chat and when to Work The easiest way I’ve found to understand the difference is to think about how much of the job I want ChatGPT to take responsibility for.

In a normal Chat conversation, I’m usually working alongside the AI.