ChatGPT gets GPT-6 and answers with buttons and charts

What's new

On October 7, 2026, OpenAI launched GPT-6 in ChatGPT along with a new interface called Intelligent UI. Until now, ChatGPT has mostly responded with text. Now an answer can also consist of graphics, buttons you can tap, forms, charts, calculators and other small tools that you can adjust right in the conversation.

The model is trained to choose on its own which combination of text, images and interactive elements fits the question. OpenAI says ChatGPT has more than 1.2 billion weekly users.

GPT-6 comes in two everyday versions: Sol for Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users from October 7, and Luna for free users and Go users the following day, October 8. According to the sources, neither replaces Astra, OpenAI's flagship model for the most demanding tasks.

What's smart about it

The smart part is that the answer adapts to the task. OpenAI's examples include a recipe plan with a schedule, a map of a trip, a savings calculator, a bill splitter and learning tools where you change a number and immediately see the result change. Comparisons are shown side by side, and explanations can come as interactive charts.

ChatGPT can also give an initial answer while continuing to think and adding information along the way, so you don't have to wait for everything.

Aarush Selvan, a product lead at OpenAI, tells TechCrunch that ChatGPT has so far been mostly text-based, but that the most helpful answers are not just text, and that the goal is for users to get things done. In the settings, you can choose fewer visual and interactive elements, but some may still appear. In companies, administrators control access to the new features.

One caveat from the outlet VKTR: Interactive answers can seem authoritative, which raises the question of how users can check for themselves that the numbers are right.

Cheaper or better?

On speed, OpenAI says GPT-6 Extra High starts responding as fast as GPT-5.6 Medium and scores higher on agentic tasks (tasks where the AI carries out several steps on its own). GPT-6 Instant starts answering web search questions 44 percent faster on average than GPT-5.6 Instant. These are OpenAI's own measurements.

Via the API, meaning when developers build AI into their own systems, Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Luna costs $0.10 and $0.50. Tokens are the chunks of text the model reads and writes. According to the analysis outlet Tech-now.io, that is about 50 percent cheaper than the GPT-5.6 predecessors, and these are fixed prices, not promotional prices.

Against competitors, OpenAI says Sol nearly matches the score of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on a coding benchmark (68.8 versus 69.9 percent) at about 20 percent of the cost per task. The figures come from OpenAI's own tests and have not been independently verified.

The price of GPT-6 in ChatGPT subscriptions is not stated in the sources. TechCrunch reports a global rollout of Intelligent UI, but none of the sources specifically mention Denmark or the EU.

What it's good for

According to Tech-now.io, Sol is meant for complex coding and professional tasks. Luna is for large volumes of simpler tasks such as summarization and question answering, and it is the model free users get.

For ordinary users, Intelligent UI is most obviously suited to everyday planning: meal plans, trips, budgets and splitting a bill. For companies, the cheaper API price is interesting if you run many tasks, while administrators can control who gets the new visual features. The Work and Codex products are unchanged.