OpenAI iterates ChatGPT Business
OpenAI published continued product updates to its ChatGPT Business offering, showing the workplace product is being actively iterated. (help.openai.com) Separately, a report said OpenAI is projecting higher ad revenues and planning a limited rollout of a cybersecurity mode, though that projection was reported by a non‑authoritative outlet. (benzinga.com)
OpenAI is steadily reworking ChatGPT Business, adding new workplace features and pricing changes in April as it pushes the product deeper into team software. (help.openai.com) On April 8, OpenAI said ChatGPT Business gained new Outlook actions for shared mailboxes and shared calendars, including reading team inboxes, moving messages, marking mail read or unread, and creating or updating calendar events when Microsoft permissions allow it. (help.openai.com) Six days earlier, on April 2, OpenAI added a new “Codex seat” for ChatGPT Business that has no fixed monthly price, bills on usage through workspace credits, and gives access to Codex only rather than the full ChatGPT workspace. (help.openai.com) OpenAI also cut the price of subscription-based ChatGPT Business seats by $5 a month, and its pricing page now lists Business at $20 per user per month on annual billing. The company says Business is a self-serve workspace with centralized billing, admin controls, and no training on workspace data. (help.openai.com) (openai.com) (help.openai.com) Those changes move ChatGPT Business closer to standard workplace software: shared inboxes, shared calendars, role-based administration, and mixed seat types inside one workspace. OpenAI’s help center says a Business workspace can now combine fixed-price ChatGPT seats with usage-based Codex seats. (help.openai.com) The product has also been renamed and repositioned over time. OpenAI launched the plan as ChatGPT Team in January 2024, then updated the original announcement on August 29, 2025 to say the product would be called ChatGPT Business instead. (openai.com) The business-plan updates land as OpenAI is also testing other revenue and product ideas outside the workplace offering. Axios reported on April 9 that OpenAI expects $2.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2026 and $100 billion by 2030, citing a source familiar with investor presentations. (axios.com) Axios separately reported on April 9 that OpenAI is finalizing a cybersecurity-focused product with advanced capabilities and plans to release it first to a small set of partners. Benzinga later summarized both Axios reports and said OpenAI did not immediately respond to its request for comment. (axios.com) (benzinga.com) OpenAI has already signaled that ads are coming to consumer ChatGPT tiers. Axios reported on January 16 that OpenAI planned to begin testing advertising on its Free and Go tiers in the United States in the following weeks, drawing a sharper line between its workplace subscriptions and its consumer monetization plans. (axios.com) For now, the clearest documented changes are the ones in OpenAI’s own help pages: more team workflows, more granular billing, and a Business plan that is still being revised week by week. (help.openai.com)
