Overview
- OpenAI told users that the legacy ChatGPT Classic desktop app will be retired and shut down on January 30, 2027, with chat histories migrated into the new unified ChatGPT application.
- The company plans to merge the Chat and Work tabs in the desktop app and combine ChatGPT and Codex usage into a single shared token quota, a change being A/B tested with a small group of users.
- OpenAI reported roughly 1.2 billion weekly active ChatGPT users and said the service now handles search-like queries at about 20% of Google’s search volume, figures the company provided to reporters.
- Product updates include Images 2.6, which adds native GIF creation and frame-level editing and is rolling out to users, while OpenAI says weekly image generation via ChatGPT and its API has climbed to billions per week.
- OpenAI demonstrated GPT-6 Astra helping hardware and product design and faces reports of imminent Astra, Sol and Cyber model updates that are currently based on early tests and unconfirmed leaks rather than public benchmarks.