GPT-6 adds clickable UI inside chats for Plus, Pro and Business

Intelligent UI, sometimes described as ChatGPT’s interactive UI, lets the chatbot decide the best format for each answer. Instead of only writing paragraphs, it can mix text with charts, diagrams, tappable buttons, forms, checklists and maps.

OpenAI’s own examples show how this plays out:

• A recipe that adjusts ingredient amounts based on how many people are coming.
• A road trip answer with a map and suggested detours.
• Multiple-choice follow-up questions to narrow down what you’re looking for.
• An explanation turned into an interactive lesson you can adjust to see how results change.

OpenAI’s pitch is that not every question should be squeezed into the same chat format. By combining interface pieces, data and actions, the company says, ChatGPT can offer new ways to explore and understand information. Students and anyone learning something new may benefit most, since an explanation can become a visual lesson where you change the inputs yourself and watch how the outcome shifts.

If plain text is the most useful reply, ChatGPT can skip the visuals entirely. OpenAI says a comparison might work best side by side, while a tricky concept might be clearer as a diagram you can play with.

The feature also lets you ask ChatGPT to make small tools on the spot. OpenAI’s examples include a bill splitter, a calculator to help weigh investment choices, and simple games, including a version of the classic Snake.

These tools live inside the conversation. You don’t need to install anything, and you can keep refining them by asking follow-up questions, much like you would with a normal answer.

Under the hood, OpenAI says Intelligent UI draws on a library of ready-made, native interface pieces. A compiler assembles them while the model is still writing, so the layout appears on screen bit by bit rather than all at once. OpenAI has admitted the model’s taste in layouts still has room to improve.

The rollout came in two steps, with different versions of the model for paid and free users:

• Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise: GPT-6 Sol, the more capable version, from October 7, worldwide.
• Free and Go: GPT-6 Luna, a lighter version, from October 8.

Both versions include Intelligent UI. The update covers the Chat tab only. The models used in ChatGPT’s Work tab and in Codex, OpenAI’s coding tool, were not changed.

GPT-6 itself wasn’t brand new. OpenAI had introduced the first GPT-6 models a month earlier for paying customers. The October models are tuned specifically for everyday conversation.

GPT-6 can start replying while it’s still reasoning, instead of finishing all its thinking first. It builds the answer across several messages, each adding something useful, so the end result reads as one piece.

OpenAI also says that for questions that need a web search, the average wait before GPT-6 Instant begins replying is 44% shorter than with GPT-5.6 Instant, and does a better job of deciding when to search. That figure comes from OpenAI, and independent testing had not confirmed it at launch.

If you use ChatGPT for practical jobs, like planning meals, comparing products or working out who owes what after a group dinner, you should get answers that are easier to act on. A table you can tweak is often quicker than rereading a paragraph.

A few tips to get the most from it:

• Ask for the format you want, for example “make this a checklist” or “give me a calculator for this”.
• Change inputs inside the widget rather than starting a new chat.
• Double-check numbers in any money tool. A neat interface doesn’t make the math more reliable than the model behind it.

Since launch, OpenAI has kept adding to the GPT-6 family. In late October it released GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model aimed at work tasks and coding, for paid users in ChatGPT Work and Codex rather than the everyday Chat tab. OpenAI says Terra can fill in browser forms, work inside spreadsheets and edit videos, and that it finishes computer-based tasks more than three times faster than its pricier models. For developers it costs half as much as the model it replaces.