OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Family and ChatGPT Work Agentic Tool (Jul 9)

OpenAI released GPT-5.6 — a three-tier model family (Sol, Terra, Luna) — on July 9, 2026, alongside ChatGPT Work, an agent that autonomously gathers context across Slack, Notion, Microsoft 365, and Google Drive to produce finished documents, spreadsheets, and presentations; per TechCrunch (Jul 9), API pricing starts at $1 input / $6 output per million tokens for Luna, rising to $5 input / $30 output for Sol. Indian builders shipping on the OpenAI API now have a meaningfully cheaper tier (Terra at $2.50/$15, roughly half the cost of GPT-5.5) for production workloads, and ChatGPT Work's multi-hour autonomous task loop is the clearest signal yet that agentic orchestration — not chat — is where enterprise budget will land in FY27.

Source: TechCrunch ↗