GPT-6 and Intelligent UI roll out to free ChatGPT users

Intelligent UI changes ChatGPT's output from plain text blocks to generated, navigable widgets and layouts. Commentators describe the GPT-6.1 era as a structural shift that turns ChatGPT from a chat assistant into a work platform.

Bringing the feature to the free tier puts it in front of hundreds of millions of users. That raises the bar for rivals' consumer assistants, which still mostly answer in markdown.

OpenAI's safety documentation emphasises hardened multi-turn jailbreak resistance. This lands in a week dominated by agent-safety incidents and an ABC report that OpenAI delayed GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns.

The most common developer question is when, and whether, these interactive widgets will reach the API and third-party apps.