Guide

ChatGPT's Intelligent UI: how to get charts, forms and buttons instead of a wall of text

Published 10 October 2026

A silver laptop on a bright white desk with a soft blurred chart and chat shapes on screen, beside a notebook, a pen and a cup of tea

Short answerChatGPT's new Intelligent UI can answer with charts, tables, buttons and small interactive tools instead of plain text. To get it, ask for the shape you want directly, such as a comparison table or a scored decision, rather than just asking a question.

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 in ChatGPT's main Chat experience on 7 October 2026, alongside a feature it calls Intelligent UI. According to coverage from Search Engine Journal and other outlets, paid plans got access first, running on the Sol model, with Free and Go plans following the next day on a lighter model called Luna. Outlets differ on the exact model names, so check the model picker in your own account. The change only affects the Chat experience; the models behind Work and Codex are unchanged.

The point of Intelligent UI is that ChatGPT can now choose to answer with more than text: a chart, a table, a set of buttons, or a small working tool, built from inside the reply. It still gives a plain text answer when that's genuinely the best format. The question is how to prompt it so you actually get the useful version instead of the old wall of paragraphs.

What it can build into an answer

Reports describe the feature as a set of built-in, streamable interface pieces, assembled as the model writes its response, rather than ChatGPT generating arbitrary code on the fly. In practice that means things like:

A comparison table with sortable rows.
A small chart built from numbers you gave it.
A short form or set of buttons to narrow down what you want next.
A scored or weighted breakdown of a decision.

If you'd rather keep plain text, there's a Layout and visuals setting on the web you can turn off.

Why "just asking" doesn't get you the good version

ChatGPT still has to decide whether your question calls for an interactive answer. A vague question gets a vague, text-only answer, the same as it always did. The way to reliably get a chart, table or scored comparison is to ask for that shape directly, the same habit that has always made AI answers better, just with a bigger pay-off now that there's somewhere for the structure to go.

Weak:

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Should I take the new job or stay where I am?

Better:

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Help me decide between two options: staying in my current job, or taking a new offer.

What matters to me: salary, growth, and time with family, in that order.

Score each option out of 5 on each factor, weight the scores by what matters most to me, and show the totals in a table. Then tell me what would have to change for the lower-scoring option to win.

The second prompt gives ChatGPT a reason to build a table and a score instead of a paragraph of pros and cons.

Prompts built for this

The decision helper prompt is written exactly for this: it asks for pros, cons, weighted scores and a table, which is a close match for what Intelligent UI is designed to render. The big purchase decision prompt works the same way for a specific buy, comparing cost-per-use against alternatives in a structured form.

For work that genuinely involves comparing several things side by side, the vendor comparison matrix asks for weighted criteria and a scoring table, which is a natural fit for a rendered table rather than a list. If you're planning research, the survey question writer and the A/B test planner both ask for a structured plan with clear sections, rather than free-flowing advice.

Getting a chart instead of a table

Charts need numbers to draw from. If you want one, paste or describe the actual data and say what kind of chart would help:

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Here is my spending by category for the last 3 months: [PASTE NUMBERS].

Show how each category has changed over the 3 months, and tell me which one grew the fastest. Use whatever chart makes that easiest to see at a glance.

Leaving the chart type open, but being specific about the comparison you want to see, tends to work better than naming a chart type ChatGPT then has to force your numbers into.

When to turn it off

Interactive elements are good for comparisons, decisions and anything with real structure. They get in the way for open-ended writing, brainstorming, or anything you plan to copy into a document, where a chart or button adds nothing. For that kind of work, either turn off Layout and visuals, or simply add "plain text only" to the end of your prompt.

Where to go from here

OpenAI's interactive slides feature, covered in our guide to ChatGPT's interactive slides, works on the same idea of building something more than text from a conversation. For more everyday ChatGPT prompts, the ChatGPT prompts collection has hundreds of ready-made ones, and the prompt builder can structure one for your own task.