OpenAI announced on November 9 that a single ChatGPT Dot can now keep several local computers connected at the same time, and choose which machine runs each task — including local Work and Codex jobs. Until now a Dot could lean on only one machine at a time, a limit users had been pushing on in the developer forum since early October. You connect each machine in the ChatGPT app under Computers → Allow access; each thread uses one computer at a time, and switching the selected computer does not move a task already running.

The connection persists from one task to the next and holds wherever you message the same Dot, phone included. Access follows the existing Dots boundaries: Pro subscribers outside the EEA, UK and Switzerland, Business Premium, and Enterprise as an admin-enabled beta. OpenAI's documentation says that starting November 18, 2026, access is on by default unless the workspace opts out.

There is no independent test yet of how reliable the multi-machine handoff is, or what happens when a selected computer drops offline mid-task; the launch examples are OpenAI's own demonstrations.