OpenAI Operator: the agent that uses the browser on the user's behalf
In one sentence On January 23, 2025 OpenAI launches Operator as a research preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US: an agent that uses its own browser by looking at screenshots and acting with mouse and keyboard. The CUA model, built on GPT-4o, scores 38.1% on OSWorld, 58.1% on WebArena and 87% on WebVoyager.
Operator is OpenAI's first agent offered as a product. You give it a task, such as ordering groceries or buying tickets, and it opens its own browser, reads the pages, clicks, types and scrolls as a person would.
The user sees in real time what it is doing and can step in at any moment. When passwords or payment details are needed, Operator hands control to the user; before significant actions it asks for confirmation.
At launch it is available only to ChatGPT Pro ($200/month) in the US. It arrives three months after Anthropic's Computer Use and one month after the preview of Google's Project Mariner.
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