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OpenAI released a brand new chat that now has a new work tab that does things for you. They overhauled the mobile app. They sunset some of their other applications to unify them into this stuff. And they have a new family of models 5.6 Saul, Terra, and Luna with Saul being as capable as Fable, or that's what they claim. We're going to have a look at all of that, plus the new voice dictation. Really, this is going to be a ChatGPT focused week because they went crazy, and I've been trying a bunch of this stuff. I want to show you what my first results look like. Plus, a lot of this is available on the free plan, which cannot be said about the competing products from Claude. And finally, we have some competition for some of these products like Fable and Claude Co-work that, you know, didn't have a match in the market. We'll look at all of that in this week's episode of AI News. You can use News, the show that looks at all the releases. This week is ChatGPT heavy, and then I get to break down the ones that matter to you. Let's do it.
Okay, let's just begin with what changed in the web interface because this is where a lot of people are spending their time. And as you might be able to notice right away, there's a new tab up here up top. From chat, you can go to work. And if you go to work, it's basically, if you're familiar, just like Claude's co-working system loop in the background where it makes a plan before it acts, and then it just connects to more things. You can connect it to plugins. I believe they just renamed that. Just a few days ago, this was called apps in Claude. It's called connectors. Yes, the nomenclature is confusing here, but that's what it is. But basically, you can connect it to all of these plugins. You can work inside of a project here, as I love to do, which you probably know by now. And you have a new model selector where you can basically pick between the new models. If you go to advanced, and the default selector is this one, with this ultra mode being reserved to the $200 Pro plan.
Okay, so that's a bunch of changes, and I didn't even talk about everything yet. There's a feature in here that I really want to show you called Sites because they focused on hosting web apps or websites in a really pretty and clean way. Cleaner even than Artifacts, and it's just built into here. But the Sites feature is a paid plan only one. So I know there's a lot here. So let's break it down step by step. Basically, all plans, including a free plan, get a new desktop ChatGPT app. In my case, I've updated this thing. I'm in the US. I still haven't got it. It's still rolling out, but the base capabilities are very similar to what you see here in the web app, with the most interesting one to me being this Sites feature, which is gated behind the paid plans. Sites basically allows you to do something like say, "Make a website about my life." Pick a new Soul model, which we'll talk about in a second. I'll just hit enter. And then it starts thinking. And you might notice this little guy here on the left. This is a new feature where you can choose your pet. And basically, instead of the default chat loading icon, you can switch it. Fireball type of guy. Maybe leave a comment below on which one you chose. I wonder if there's like a popular one. Anyway, back on track. As you can see here on the right, as it starts building out this site, I really love how simple ChatGPT made this. As per usual, they're trying to be the consumer app for a billion people, or eight billion people, I suppose. And they're good at that. They're good at simplifying things. If you look at this right interface, it shows you two things. One, what is the input, the source? And two, what is the output? In this case, the output is the site that automatically picked that. In other cases, you could kind of select that. If you run a prompt, "Hey, I want a different output. I want a presentation, I want a spreadsheet, or I want a site as a source." Well, there's a bunch. There's either the plugins, you could add custom ones. This is nothing new. It's just reorganized. What's genuinely new is the Sites feature, and also these new models are apparently way better at creating presentations, documents, spreadsheets, all of that.
So, what does it look like when it finishes up creating a website about my life? Well, it's going to be a generic one here because there's not much context attached, and I didn't tell it more than that. But if I look at it and I say, "Open in a new tab," notice a few things. First of all, the URL, pretty clean. You know, it's not like 7x5ZB.artifact.claude.ai or something like that. That was actually a simplification of what the Claude URL looks like. But it's this. It's something that you could reasonably share in a chat. And yeah, it's just hosted on there. So, that's pretty good. Secondly, they're just good. That can also be said about the Claude Sites, though. So, you know, everything working at this stage with AI is sort of expected. But you can see these are really solid. Everything is nicely animated. All the buttons work as expected. But thirdly, and I think this is really important, and to me, this is a standout feature. This doesn't show up like a Claude artifact. There's no, "Hey, remix this artifact or copy it to your account," just like you have with artifacts. If you're not familiar with what I'm talking about, is if you do the same thing inside of Claude, well, you can totally say publish and go to that link, which, you know, looks like this. But then that link will contain this bar up here. "Hey, Claude content is user-generated and unverified." So, it's not a legitimate site. Whereas ChatGPT, as the name implies, it built an actual site for you that you could now use and refine here in chat. I think that is very neat. So, that's the first big feature, both in the web app and on the desktop app. And that is only a paid feature. But more widely, this general work feature where you connect things and you define an input and output, this is available on all plans, including free, which is not the case with Claude Co-work. Love to see that because Co-work is just the sweet spot for so many people in terms of AI user-friendliness and the capabilities.
There's also some new plugins here. I want to quickly say that. So if you go to browse all plugins, they have some featured ones, plus they boast over 500 plugins in this store, whereas Claude only has a fraction of that. Now, here is a thing that was not obvious to me when I looked at this, watching the presentation, looking at the release materials, scouring the internet for what other people are doing. They brought my favorite Claude feature into here: Skills. Yes, you heard me right. It's a bit hidden. You need to go to the plugin store and here, switch over to Skills. And it's the same skill file format that already works in Claude. So, any skill you might have in Claude, you can just put in here. So, I brought over my favorite one, Egor Voice. Okay. How does it work? Well, write a quick thank you note in at Egor. And then here you see the Egor voice. I just hit enter. Maybe I take a weaker model, and then we're going to get that with the skill. Also, these icons are kind of nice. It's a small touch, but I think it's just a better way than the equivalent in Claude where you'd say slash and then pick the voice, and it looks like this. Subtle differences, but they're really going for the widest market possible, and I think they're making some brilliant design decisions here. There you go. That is my writing voice. And I could turn that into a presentation. Let's crank up the model because that's going to help. As you can see here, it's going to ask me some follow-up questions that I chose to ignore. And now it's doing some completely random presentation, which is fine because what I want to show you is the core interface. It's just like homework. It gives you the process up here. And again, inputs down here, sources, and outputs up there. That's the first thing you think about in a system. What comes in? What comes out? What do the steps in between look like? And then if you want to automate it and get it off your table, you think about what triggers it and does the output go in some destination. Okay. Anyway, I couldn't help myself but go into some automation theory. Back into this. My ChatGPT work here is doing what exactly? It's using the image generation skill for a small set of original visual assets since the deck benefits from consistent imagery rather than generic stock photos. Nice. So, it's using the ChatGPT image generation capabilities that are really good, actually best-in-class, to make images before it builds the PowerPoint deck. Then, it's going to inspect it and save and then deliver the final deck to me. Can't wait to see what it looks like. Might take a minute, though.
So, this presentation took about 10 minutes to generate, but I actually was almost done with the video by that. So, let's check it out here. Let's see what we got. "Practical AI for Everyday Work." This is the image it generated. Looks solid. Honestly, first of all, there's nothing obviously wrong with this. Secondly, it's also nothing super special first look, right? So, what I did right now, and by the way, yes, I'm by the way, backstage just finishing this video because it needs to be complete. What I did is I took an image from our website just down here, this one. And I was like, "Hey, apply this style to the presentation." And in another 8 minutes, it restyled the whole thing. And actually, this was the point where I was like, "Ooh, that looks really good." Look at that. It applied the direction. It has the background with the grid. I really like it. Even these little glows. This is really good. I'm not blown away by it. But also, I feel like all of this being editable in here now is so powerful that it makes me want to use this as my primary presentation creation tool. I mean, look at that. I just open it in PowerPoint, and all of this is just so easy to manipulate. And I bet if I wanted, I could ask it to create more images to enhance the presentation just like this, just because ChatGPT image already has the best image creation right now. So, yeah, presentations really solid at the very least. No wonder they made it a core piece of the interface when making something here under outputs. And by the way, one more thing on ChatGPT work. If you're curious about some use cases, their website did a really good job of adding several videos, and you can kind of just flip between these. Worth checking out.
Okay, but now let's talk about the models. Usually, I talk about those first, but at this point, I think these features, especially in the web app, are even more interesting than the models. Not to downplay the models, though. They're amazing on benchmarks. A lot of it is at Fable level, which is amazing. Finally, a second model at the level of Fable. And I don't even know why I say finally. It's just been a few weeks since that has been even announced. But I love to see competition. And they have no plans of taking this one down from the paid plans. Whereas with Fable, they extended it now. So if I look into here, Fable is available till July the 12th, which is two more days from the date of this recording. Whereas GPT Saul, that, as you can see, is on a very similar level on a lot of these benchmarks, but just the cost is around 2.5x. It's amazing. Look, it's been a few hours since the announcement, and I don't want to sit here and pretend like I'm going to give you the exact breakdown of which model is better when, but what has proven to be true over the past few weeks is that Fable is just the goat at planning and orchestrating complicated things. A lot of people adopted a workflow where they use it to plan and then they use other models like Opus to execute those plans. And it's not just because of cost. As a model that is doing things, it turns out that Fable is really good, but maybe not even the best. So it's actually not just a cost decision but also a quality decision why some people are falling back to Opus to do things. Fable to plan things for this model. I think it's going to be really interesting to see over time where it lands and if this is a doer model or a planner model or a both. Either way, it's way cheaper, and there's no plans of them taking it down. And on the benchmarks, it performs well, as I said, and people online are reporting that still for these big complicated tasks or things where in one shot you're going to make a big plan, Fable is still the goat as opposed to GPT 5.6 Saul. That's the first reports. I'm just pairing opinions online.
But what I do want to point out is that, well, first of all, I love this slider where you can go from the lighter model all the way to 5.6 Ultra. And basically, what Ultra does versus some of the other settings is that it coordinates multiple agents at a minimum of four to get the task done. Meaning it's going to spawn four instances of ChatGPT with a varying purpose, and they're going to work together to get your thing done. You can think of it as starting four ChatGPTs to do the same task. Obviously, that's going to eat up your usage super quickly. As per usual, Reddit users did not hesitate to share their frustrations. And I like this particular post here where he said, "Hey, I gave it 10 different PDFs to combine everything into one comprehensive document, and he used ChatGPT 5.6 Soul Ultra with this multi-agent system in the background. It created a final output with roughly 700 pages." Nice. But that one prompt ate up his entire Pro account, which is the $20 plan. And well, that one prompt. And then once his usage limit reset, he ran one more task, and his entire allowance disappeared. I mean, easy to complain, but brother, just organized 1,400 pages for $20. Honestly, is that a bad deal? Is that not a No, no, no, no. A human would charge more than $20 for that, that's for sure. Anyway, it's an interesting age. These things are going to get cheaper over time. Certainly powerful stuff.
And I want to point out that they made a big point in the presentation that the big standout capability of this is not just some of these work features and the Sites feature and the intelligence of this Soul model, which is at Fable level, but also the ability to process a lot of varying documents and turn them into something concrete. So if you're like, "Hey, I have an Excel sheet and all these reports, and make a PowerPoint presentation out of that." It's really good at synthesizing things into anything that you need. And I think that's why they timed this with the work modality because, as you can see, this brings together a lot of the things that ChatGPT could already do. And here with the varying sources, all the plugins they have, really a lot of variety there, and all the stuff that you can attach, and all the context you can bring in from projects, and the image generation, and the web search, all of it comes together to create useful outputs. I think that's the big idea here. Whether it's a site, whether it's a document, whether it's just a normal answer or a 700-page document, it can do it at a level of intelligence that is unprecedented. And I think that's the core story here. And there you go. ChatGPT work making an image of a cat with a hat. Always love to do that. It's sort of like a baptism type of moment for a new model or interface for me, at least.
Now, I would want to show you the desktop app. As I said, I don't have the update here yet because there's one feature in there that we didn't show off yet, which is the web browsing, which is supposed to be so, so, so much better than anything before. And I always love a good web browser. Matter of fact, this web browser is so good that they sunset their separate web browsing application, Atlas. Remember that? Really hyped when it came out, a few days later, nobody was talking about it anymore. And now they sunset it. It's just gone. It's built into the new ChatGPT desktop application, which again, it's available to everybody, even free plans. So check out if you have it. I'm going to keep my eye on it and feature it in next week's video.
Oh, and there's one more thing, which is a new voice mode in the ChatGPT mobile app and desktop app. Look, voice mode improvements are always so subtle that they're really hard to notice, right? They're like, "Ooh, it's a few percent more accurate." All right, but it was already perfect. So what really changed here to me is not the accuracy. It's the ability to speak over itself. I'm just going to hit the voice mode and >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Talk to me about something. >> Sure. So, fun thing about voice modes is that everyone has a natural range, right? Chest voice and then you can slide up. And >> So, so listen, if I talk, can you like talk over me while I'm saying something? >> Yeah, I can do that. And I'll keep talking right through little pauses. Think of it like a co-aration, for example. >> So if we co-arate something and I pause a little bit. Yeah. >> Oh, there he is talking right over >> Right right over me, right over a blend. So the use case for this is actually live translation. So to test the live translator, I have a fantastic idea today because we're actually putting like an in-person conference for some of our closest members in our program here in Arizona. We have the entire team out here, and with me over here sits the legendary editor, the one and only Robert. Robert, come join me over here. Robert is one of the two geniuses editing this video. Well, every time I have a chance to do some fun edit, I do it. >> That's exactly right. >> His favorite hobby is embarrassing me slightly, but that's what we do on this channel. We're just real with it. Anyway, Robert, we're going to do a little thing. Both speak Slovak, right? So, what we're going to do is I'm going to represent the English speaker. You're going to represent the Slovak speaker, and we're going to use this to translate. See how it goes. Hey, can you act as a translator, live translator between Slovak and English? I'm going to speak English and then translate into Slovak, and then Slovak into English. >> You got it. Starting live English to Slovak and Slovak to English translation now. >> All right. Um, how are you doing today? I'm doing great. And you? >> Oh, I'm doing fantastic. It was a long day. There was a lot of Chip replaces. Okay. >> It was a very long day. Lots of presentations. >> Wow. Okay. So, it really does translate quickly. You notice that? Oh my god. That is impressive. What do you think? >> Really, really impressive. And it was like instant >> Instant. It really felt fluid. You could kind of just keep talking. At first, I was a bit surprised that it kind of talked over us, but then you get used to it. And yeah, I I think I've tried all of them. This feels like the best live translator. Wouldn't you agree? >> For sure. >> Amazing. Thank you. So there you go. That's another big ChatGPT upgrade.
Overall, they're really just making this into the most solid consumer application. All of these little interface simplifications, little icons. The fact that work is available on the free tier is just unbelievably user-friendly, and it's just asking for billions of people to adopt it. Whereas Claude, you know, is a strong competitor, and I still use it every single day, but it's just positioned a bit more towards people who take more control of their context and people who are maybe more at intermediate and even advanced level. Like you can fluidly go from ChatGPT to ChatGPT work now. But in Claude, it's Claude, Claude Co-work, and then Claude Code. Which I suppose now would be in the OpenAI universe. The ChatGPT desktop app because, yeah, I think I didn't mention this, because the desktop app is now going to include the web browser. They don't have Atlas anymore. It replaces the old desktop app, so that's obvious. But thirdly, it also replaces Codex, the standalone application. So really, they merged multiple things into one. It's good at web browsing. You have the recording feature where you just hit record, you do something on your desktop, and then it records it, just like Codex had before. And it does everything ChatGPT did, and it does the stuff that work does now. So they just unified a bunch of stuff and they made it really user-friendly, and I think people are going to love it. So go ahead, give it a shot, try one of the hosted sites if you're on a paid plan, and let me know what you think. I'll be following up on these stories. I think they're super interesting.
To round out the videos, I want to point out one radar story that I thought was really relevant this week, and that's the fact that Claude Co-work upgraded. And I think they were aware of what's coming from ChatGPT. So they shipped a very important update. It's the fact that now Co-work is also available in the web. So before, we only used to have it in the desktop application. Now, if I go to claude.ai, you can see right here I can switch from Claude Chat to Claude Co-work, and I can just work. You might be asking, Egor, wasn't a standard feature of Claude Co-work the fact that it would use local folders? And yeah, that's exactly right. Now, it uses a cloud folder. And additionally, if you look into the scheduled tasks, you will see that there's a new option where there's a cloud icon next to the scheduled tasks, meaning scheduled tasks can now run in the cloud, meaning they can run without you keeping your computer open. So, anybody who bought something like a Mac Mini or a dedicated MacBook Neo just for Claude Co-work, well, they're still used to that. Let's talk about that in a second. But by default, you can run many of these tasks in the cloud, and you do not need a dedicated computer. Now, I said most of them because I did a bunch of testing, and certain connectors still only work with the desktop application where you need the computer open. So, a lot of stuff works in the cloud, not all of it, though. Oh, and one more thing. If you want to move a scheduled task over from running locally on your machine over to the cloud, there's no switch. So if I have this daily briefing, for example, what I would do is just copy the full instructions. Go to schedule task, say new task, set up manually, paste it in here, daily briefing cloud. And then here I can select, I can say I want this to run in the cloud or on my computer. And yeah, if I put this on a daily schedule, then it's going to run every day in the cloud. Pretty neat. And if you wondered, that's basically the default experience of chat work. And also here I can go to scheduled and schedule things out. And yeah, that's pretty much what came out of both chat and Claude this week. A big week. Super useful stuff. Look forward to some more use cases and tutorials on this channel because that's what we do out here. And that's pretty much everything I have for this week. My name is Egor, and I hope you have a wonderful day. The Twitter threads are hyping, but you know they're filled with bots. Most of these releases are made of pure noise. We're here to help you separate the tools from the toys you can use. Breaking down the stories you can use here to help you figure it.