Uber gives more than 30,000 staff OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work agent

Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work, OpenAI’s office-task agent, to more than 30,000 employees after a 1,000-person pilot, OpenAI said. It connects to Gmail, Drive and Slack and runs on GPT-6.1 Sol by default. The move comes as Uber tries to rein in its AI spending. Uber is giving more than 30,000 employees access to ChatGPT Work, OpenAI’s AI agent for office tasks, OpenAI said on Thursday. The company-wide rollout follows a pilot with 1,000 staff. ChatGPT Work, which OpenAI launched in July, can carry out tasks with many steps and hand back finished work. It connects to tools such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar and Slack, so staff can prepare meeting briefs, build slides and analyse data.