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Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees

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Uber and OpenAI are rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees worldwide, expanding a pilot that previously involved 1,000 staff. OpenAI says the enterprise agent can handle multi-step tasks and connect with Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar and Slack, with GPT-6.1 Sol as the default model. TechCrunch reports that Uber has not finalized how employees will use the tool or disclosed the rollout’s cost, and the companies plan to share adoption findings and outcomes as deployment progresses.

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This is Uber’s first company-wide deployment of an agentic platform for knowledge work, giving ChatGPT Work a large enterprise user base across multiple departments.

Uber and OpenAI announced an expansion of their partnership on Thursday, with the ride-share giant telling TechCrunch that its entire global workforce — some 30,000 people — will now be using ChatGPT Work.

ChatGPT Work was introduced in July as an enterprise-focused AI agent that corporate teams could deploy for various workflows.

Uber originally piloted ChatGPT Work with 1,000 employees earlier this year but has now scaled up its usage to the entire company.

That earlier pilot was deployed to workers from across Uber’s various departments, including finance, operations, and product. Indeed, a majority of the early adopters — some 80% — were non-engineers, Sumanth Sukumar, Uber’s VP of engineering, told TechCrunch.

“They used it for a wide range of tasks: analyzing complex data from our operations to identify trends and develop recommendations; localizing training materials for different markets and languages; and building personalized interactive dashboards to manage their daily work,” he said.

Yet while the ride-share giant is now going all in on ChatGPT, it has not settled on exactly how employees will use it. “Our approach is to make powerful AI tools available across Uber while giving teams room to experiment,” Sukumar said. “For example, earlier this year we paired 30 AI engineers with teams across Uber and gave them two weeks to automate key parts of their job. Those ‘AI pods’ showed us how much opportunity there is when you combine technical expertise with a deep understanding of a particular job.”

#Uber#OpenAI#ChatGPT Work#GPT-6.1 Sol#Codex#Google Drive#Gmail#Google Calendar#Slack

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