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OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets (axios.com)

(Thursday March 05, 2026 @05:00PM (BeauHD) from the new-and-improved dept.)


OpenAI today [1]released GPT-5.4, an upgraded ChatGPT model [2]designed to be faster, cheaper, and more accurate for workplace tasks . The update also introduces tools that let ChatGPT work directly inside Excel and Google Sheets. Axios reports:

> GPT-5.4 is designed to be less error-prone, more efficient and better at workplace tasks like drafting documents, OpenAI said. The new model can create files in fewer tries with less back-and-forth than prior models, the company said. GPT-5.4 outperformed office workers 83% of the time on GDPval, an OpenAI benchmark measuring performance on real-world tasks across 44 occupations.

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> The model can also solve problems using fewer tokens, OpenAI says -- which can translate to faster responses and lower costs. The company is also debuting OpenAI for Financial Services, a set of new tools that includes the version of ChatGPT that runs inside spreadsheets and new apps and skills within ChatGPT. Partners include FactSet, MSCI, Third Bridge and Moody's.



[1] https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/

[2] https://www.axios.com/2026/03/05/openai-gpt-54-chatgpt-office


But what happens when something goes wrong? (Score:2)

by Quakeulf ( 2650167 )

Where is the liability?

Re: But what happens when something goes wrong? (Score:4, Funny)

by liqu1d ( 4349325 )

Who even cares it's so shiny!!! Think of all the jobs I can replace with it.

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by Valgrus Thunderaxe ( 8769977 )

If I had to do everything over again I'd become an electrician or a plumber.

Re: (Score:2)

by SumDog ( 466607 )

Are you a software engineer? They big money is airlines. Some of those pilots can get up to $200k with experience.

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by dgatwood ( 11270 )

> Are you a software engineer? They big money is airlines. Some of those pilots can get up to $200k with experience.

For now.

Planes can already automatically take off, land, and fly, at least within certain limitations (wind speed and no mechanical problems being the big two). As far as I know, nobody has attempted automatic support for taxiing from the gate to the runway and vice versa, but remote piloting would be entirely plausible when you're still on the ground, so that's not a showstopper.

And it's worth noting that we have already seen demonstrations of fully autonomous cargo drones carrying several hundred pounds.

Re: (Score:2)

by BeepBoopBeep ( 7930446 )

Technology is not liable. Humans are. No one puts a gun in jail if it mis-fired.

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by Hentes ( 2461350 )

Wait, are you using a spreadsheet for safety critical stuff?

Claude (Score:2)

by Kingduck ( 894139 )

I’m sticking with Claude.

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by caseih ( 160668 )

Does Claude Pro now work for the Excel plugin? Last I tried it said I needed a Max or Enterprise subscription.

Re:Claude (Score:5, Insightful)

by machineghost ( 622031 )

Does it matter? Your choices are "support the best (overall) AI, which just got blacklisted (1950's Red Scare-style) by the Trump government for refusing to illegally surveil US citizens" ... or "support the AI that said it will happily surveil Americans illegally".

To me it's not even a choice.

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by taustin ( 171655 )

> Does it matter? Your choices are "support the best (overall) AI, which just got blacklisted (1950's Red Scare-style) by the Trump government for refusing to illegally surveil US citizens" ... or "support the AI that said it will happily surveil Americans illegally".

> To me it's not even a choice.

I feel like I should point out that they didn't refuse to illegally surveil US citizens, they refused to surveil US citizens for the government . Their entire existence is built on surveilling everyone everywhere all the time to whatever degree they can.

I can't help but wonder if their reluctance to do so for the government is fear of a FOIA request revealing just how pervasive it is.

Faster, cheaper, more accurate (Score:2)

by Valgrus Thunderaxe ( 8769977 )

Pick any two.

paywalls and account walls suck (Score:3)

by 2TecTom ( 311314 )

here's a real version [1]https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/g... [tomsguide.com]

people who link to click bait should be banned

[1] https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/gpt-5-4-is-here-and-openai-just-made-every-other-ai-model-look-slow

Now we're talking. (Score:2)

by nightflameauto ( 6607976 )

Let's put these tools in the hands of accountants creating important and legally required documents via spreadsheet manipulation. This will lead to some spectacularly entertaining stories in a few months.

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by ffkom ( 3519199 )

And by that you mean stories like "AI companies convince US government to lower accuracy requirements for corporate accounting" ?

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by nightflameauto ( 6607976 )

> And by that you mean stories like "AI companies convince US government to lower accuracy requirements for corporate accounting" ?

Shit. I forgot what timeline we're in. I was more hoping that companies would start panicking and running away when the government officials started ransacking them for massive financial fraud, but you're more likely right.

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by Junta ( 36770 )

Yep, however good or not as good the LLMs are at facts, they are very good at 'narrative', and seems like there's a critical mass that deems narrative sufficient, a marketing person's wet dream...

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