OpenAI’s research organization now runs 3.1 agent-workdays of effort for every workday of human labor, the company said in a September 8, 2026 essay that lays out how it intends to convert frontier model capability into revenue. The figure, measured against a standard eight-hour workday as of mid-August 2026, anchors a broader argument by chief financial officer Sarah Friar that more capable models, a user base of more than one billion weekly actives, and a full-stack compute strategy reinforce…