OpenAI, has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent, which will be integrated into the company’s chatbot ChatGPT.
The ChatGPT Agent is a general-purpose agent that has its own virtual computer to browse the web and find information, as well as an integrated development environment (IDE) for coding.
Most importantly, it is always in user control. ChatGPT requests permission before taking actions of consequence, and users can easily interrupt, take over the browser, or stop tasks at any point.
At the core of this new capability is a unified agentic system. It brings together three strengths of earlier breakthroughs: the Operator’s ability to interact with websites, deep research’s skill in synthesizing information, and ChatGPT’s intelligence and conversational fluency.
The new AI agent was launched in a live stream. This is the company’s third agentic offering and second independent agent. OpenAI said that ChatGPT Agent comes with “Operator’s ability to interact with websites, deep research’s skill in synthesizing information, and ChatGPT’s intelligence and conversational fluency.”
ChatGPT can now do work for you using its own computer.
Introducing ChatGPT agent—a unified agentic system combining Operator’s action-taking remote browser, deep research’s web synthesis, and ChatGPT’s conversational strengths. pic.twitter.com/7uN2Nc6nBQ
Pro, Plus, and Team users can activate ChatGPT’s new agentic capabilities directly through the tools dropdown from the composer by selecting ‘agent mode’ at any point in any conversation.
ChatGPT agent is designed for iterative, collaborative workflows, far more interactive and flexible than previous models. As ChatGPT works, users can interrupt at any point to clarify instructions, steer it toward desired outcomes, or change the task entirely. It will pick up where it left off, now with the new information, but without losing previous progress.
Likewise, ChatGPT itself may proactively seek additional details from users when needed to ensure the task remains aligned with their goals. If a task takes longer than anticipated or feels stuck, users can pause it, ask it for a progress summary, or stop it entirely and receive partial results. If users have the ChatGPT app on their phone, it will send them a notification when it’s done with the task.
