Overview
- OpenAI has begun limited testing that merges the Chat and Work tabs into a single ChatGPT desktop workspace, a change the company announced on Monday to let users move from conversation to agent tasks without switching views.
- Starting in December, Plus, Pro and Business plans will draw ChatGPT conversations and Codex tasks from one shared monthly token pool, while Instant chats will remain exempt from that allowance.
- Codex will stay as a separate experience inside the app even though its consumption will count against the unified token budget, and OpenAI is displaying a retirement notice that the older ChatGPT Classic app will be retired on January 30, 2027.
- OpenAI has not published the sizes of the new combined pools or a full per‑product consumption breakdown, and users and developers are pressing the company for real‑time usage dashboards and explicit allowance figures before the billing change arrives.
- The move builds on earlier product convergence and recent increases to some Pro Work and Codex limits, but it will require teams to change capacity planning and internal chargeback practices if the shared pool alters usable access to models and coding tasks.