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Smooth Operator: OpenAI's Agent Finally Arrives

OpenAI unveiled its long-anticipated autonomous agent, Operator. Combined with ChatGPT it represents a potent challenge to Google.
Smooth Operator: OpenAI's Agent Finally Arrives

Operator Overview

Anticipated for months, OpenAI yesterday unveiled its autonomous agent Operator as a "research preview." It's currently available to available to US ChatGPT Pro users ($200 per month). At some point, Operator will be available to other ChatGPT subscriber categories (e.g., Plus). It's also supposed be integrated into ChatGPT, just as SearchGPT has been.

While Claude and Google have both previewed or announced autonomous agents, this is a bigger deal because of ChatGPT's market leadership and consumer awareness – most consumers don't know about Claude and haven't really adopted Gemini. However, it's an imperfect early stage product. But like ChatGPT it will get better over time. Think about the difference between ChatGPT in 2022 and today.

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