OpenAI Launches Operator, Its First AI Agent

• OpenAI unveiled Operator, its first AI agent, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US.
• It can autonomously complete tasks like booking reservations or buying groceries.
• The agent is powered by a new model built in GPT-4o called CUA.

Experts predicted that 2025 would be the year AI agents go mainstream, and OpenAI is delivering on that forecast.

On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled Operator, a system that can use a web browser to do things like book travel reservations and buy products.

While chatbots like OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT use generative AI to respond to queries, Operator is an agent designed to perform tasks autonomously.

OpenAI said Operator would be available Thursday in the US for users of ChatGPT Pro, a…