OpenAI launches ChatGPT for small businesses program to accelerate AI adoption nationwide

OpenAI launches small business program as it touts 10M ChatGPT Work and Codex users

OpenAI has announced a new initiative called the ChatGPT for small business program. Meanwhile, the company touts reaching 10M ChatGPT Work and Codex users. ChatGPT for small business program OpenAI says its new ChatGPT for small business program is "an initiative to help small businesses be more productive and scale their businesses with ChatGPT." The program entails four key parts. These include access to hands on virtual training, attending in-person small business AI academies in the U.S., helpful guides for getting started with ChatGPT, and access to new agents and partners specifically made for small businesses. OpenAI has a form where small businesses can sign up to join. You can learn more about OpenAI's small business program here. ChatGPT Work and Codex reach 10M users The effort is part of an overall push to promote ChatGPT Work, a more agentic version of ChatGPT that can be used for wider productivity tasks beyond chatbot responses. OpenAI's 10M user milestone for ChatGPT Work and Codex doubles the user base of Codex alone earlier in July. OpenAI replaced its desktop app this month with a version based on its standalone Codex app, adding more advanced capabilities that also added complexity to the basic chat interface. The app has since been updated a few times to strike a better balance between chat and tasks.

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The AI giant announced a new program on Tuesday called ChatGPT for Small Businesses; it is designed to help entrepreneurs leverage its newly launched ChatGPT Work agent and other tools. To that end, OpenAI is offering virtual webinars, in-person training, interactive guides, and partner integrations for small businesses. "With a lean team, limited time, and few resources, every owner is expected to be the marketer, accountant, salesperson, operator, and strategist all-in-one. We believe AI can change that by being a force multiplier that extends individual expertise, increases capacity, and gives everyone access to world class tools they need to achieve their greatest ambitions," OpenAI said in an announcement. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9 alongside its GPT-5.6 model. An agent within ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work is intended to help workers complete complicated, multi-step tasks like analyzing budgets, generating marketing materials, or prepping for meetings. Accomplishing these tasks, however, requires permission to access reference materials like files, applications, and data.

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The ChatGPT small business program includes webinars that show small businesses how to use ChatGPT Work for accounting, marketing, eCommerce and other use cases; in-person OpenAI Academy events that offer guided instruction, hands-on exercises and support from fellow business owners; content such as customer stories, interactive guides and short-form videos that show how business owners can get started with ChatGPT Work; and plugins, skills and special offers from OpenAI partners, the company said in a Tuesday (July 21) press release. "We're most excited for small businesses to explore use cases with ChatGPT Work, and let it take on tasks that would have otherwise been outsourced, fallen to the wayside, or handled as one of the many hats an owner has to tackle," OpenAI said in the release. OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT Work on July 9, describing it as a new agent in ChatGPT that is designed for work that is more complex than a typical chat request. The company said ChatGPT Work can take action across the user's apps and files; can spend hours on a project if needed; and can produce sheets, slides, docs, web apps and other finished materials. In its Tuesday press release announcing the small business program, OpenAI said that small businesses need enterprise-grade technology, but in a way that is accessible and affordable. "ChatGPT Work is also powered by GPT-5.6, our most advanced model available to businesses of any size and all subscription plans," the company said. "Which means businesses can use the latest models and our most powerful agents, whether they are at their desk doing their deepest work, or on the go in between shifts. Small businesses can choose the right level of intelligence model for the work at hand, and together, they give lean teams more flexibility to balance quality, speed and cost." PYMNTS reported July 14 that Citadel Securities found that since the launch of ChatGPT, new U.S. business applications have risen and the median number of employees at seed-stage startups has fallen. Citadel Securities said that a founder who once needed separate employees for accounting, marketing, customer service and compliance can use AI to pool those functions across a smaller team.

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Investing.com -- OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of its ChatGPT for small businesses program, designed to help small business owners increase productivity and scale their operations using AI tools. The program includes several components aimed at supporting small business growth. Virtual training sessions will offer product-specific webinars demonstrating how small businesses can use ChatGPT Work in daily operations, with demos covering accounting, marketing, and ecommerce use cases. OpenAI will also host in-person small business AI academies across the United States. These events will bring together local business owners for guided instruction and hands-on exercises. At last year's Small Business AI Jams, 78% of participants built a functional AI workflow in a single day, and 42% saved more than five hours weekly with AI assistance. The program will provide new guides including customer stories, interactive guides for ChatGPT Work, and short-form videos with specific prompts and examples. Small businesses will also gain access to new agents and partnerships with companies including Dropbox, Shopify, Intuit, Slack, Atlassian, and Wix, featuring skills built for common small business workflows and exclusive promotions. "ChatGPT has been so much more than a way to get work done faster. It has strengthened the way I think -- not by telling me what to do, but by helping me unlock ideas I never thought possible," said Marina Petrova, CEO and Co-Founder of Intentful.ai. ChatGPT Work, recently announced by OpenAI, can complete multi-step tasks and connect to various business applications and files. The service is powered by GPT-5.6 and is available to businesses of all sizes across all subscription plans. This article was generated with the support of AI and reviewed by an editor. For more information see our T&C.