OpenAI brings GPT-6 and “Intelligent UI” to ChatGPT users, with interactive charts, buttons and tools in answers

OpenAI said in a post dated 7 October 2026 that GPT-6 in ChatGPT introduces “Intelligent UI”, a capability that lets ChatGPT answer with “fully interactive user interfaces”.^[1] According to OpenAI, responses can include graphics, tappable buttons, forms, charts and interactive experiences, and the format depends on the question, with a plain text answer given when that is most useful.^[1] The Verge reported that the update lets ChatGPT combine text with diagrams, charts, forms and buttons, and that users can ask it to build tools such as a retirement savings calculator, a retro game or a bill splitter.^[1][2]

OpenAI said the rollout to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users started on 7 October in the Chat tab, and expands to Free and Go users the next day; it said Enterprise availability depends on workplace admin settings.^[1] Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users get the GPT-6 Sol model and Free and Go users get GPT-6 Luna.^[1][3] OpenAI said the models powering Work and Codex are not changing in this release.^[1] OpenAI did not give a time of day for the rollout in the sources read.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} OpenAI said ChatGPT is used by more than 1.2 billion people each week.^[1]

OpenAI said it built a library of native, streamable components and a compiler that shows the interface progressively as the model generates it.^[1] It said GPT-6 was trained with the help of evaluations of the interfaces it creates for clarity, usefulness and completeness, and that “There's still work ahead to improve the model's design judgment”.^[1] Aarush Selvan, a product manager at OpenAI, told TechCrunch that “ChatGPT has predominantly been a text-based interface”, and told Wired that a design team had spent time deciding when a diagram, chart or buttons add value rather than clutter.^[4][5] TechCrunch and Wired reported that users can ask for fewer visuals.^[4][5]

OpenAI also said ChatGPT can now begin answering while it continues to think, building an answer across several partial responses.^[1] OpenAI said GPT-6 Instant starts answering 44% sooner on average than GPT-5.6 Instant for questions that need web search, and that in an internal evaluation of difficult problems GPT-6 correctly addressed the key aspect of the question more often than GPT-5.6.^[1] The Decoder reported that OpenAI says this cuts wait times by 44 percent.^[3] OpenAI said that in adversarial testing GPT-6 showed stronger resistance to attempts to bypass its safety training, and pointed to a system card for more detail.^[1][2]

The Decoder reported that Google shipped a similar feature in its Gemini chatbot in May, called “Neural Expressive”, and Wired reported that Google announced a comparable “generative UI” for Search earlier in 2026.^[3][5] Wired’s Reece Rogers, who tested the interface before launch, wrote that a shift toward generative interfaces “may spark an identity crisis for designers”.^[5]