ChatGPT Agent: OpenAI merges Operator and Deep Research into an agent with a virtual computer
In one sentence On July 17, 2025 OpenAI launches ChatGPT Agent, combining Operator's web browsing and Deep Research's analysis into a single agent with its own virtual computer: visual and text browser, terminal and connectors.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Agent, which brings together two existing products:
- Operator (January 2025): an AI that uses the browser like you do, clicking and filling in forms;
- Deep Research (February 2025): an AI that does in-depth research and produces a report.
The result is a single ChatGPT mode that works on its own virtual computer and picks the right tool by itself: browsing a site, reading pages, running code, building a spreadsheet or a slide deck. For consequential actions, such as a purchase or sending an email, it asks for confirmation first, and the user can interrupt it or take over at any time.
At launch it is available to Pro, Plus and Team subscribers (with a limited number of messages per month), with Enterprise and Education following later. The Operator site is shut down in the following weeks.
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