OpenAI's Operator promises to abolish browser-based drudgery, here's everything you need to know about the AI agent and when you'll be able to try it for yourself.

OpenAI gave me one week to test its new AI agent, Operator, a system that can independently do tasks for you on the internet. Operator is the closest thing I’ve seen to the tech industry’s vision of AI agents — systems that can automate the boring parts of life,

With OpenAI’s release of Operator, Scott Friend, an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, believes we’ll now see an acceleration in what will ultimately be viewed as the third wave of major digital commerce innovation.

The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence.

OpenAI announced that it is launching a research preview of Operator, an AI agent that can take control of a browser and perform tasks.

The agent will be available first in the US to subscribers of ChatGPT Pro.

Users have had the chance to gather early impressions following the January 23 release of OpenAI's Operator. So far, they're a little underwhelming.

OpenAI said its ‘Operator’ agent went live for some users on Thursday, creating the ability for artificial intelligence to automate tasks such as buying groceries and filing expense reports.

Going forward, OpenAI plans to expand the availability of Operator beyond ChatGPT Pro to the chatbot’s other tiers. The company will also offer the agent through its application programming interface. Under the hood, OpenAI plans to add enhancements that will make Operator better at completing complex tasks.

The service, called Deep Research, will be available to certain paying customers through OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot online OpenAI is releasing a new artificial intelligence tool that is designed to carry out time-consuming online research for users about everything from complex science questions to car recommendations - expanding the start-up's portfolio of AI agents that act on a person's behalf.