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Meet OpenAI’s Operator, an AI agent that uses the web to book you dinner reservations, order tickets, compile grocery lists and more
Instead of relying on specialized APIs, the system uses screenshots for visual input and virtual mouse and keyboard actions to complete tasks.
The preview, now available to paying U.S. subscribers of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pro ($200 per month) plan, aims to demonstrate the potential of agentic AI while gathering critical feedback to refine its capabilities. Typing a request into this box — “find me tickets for the LA Lakers game tonight” — will trigger Operator to open a separate, virtual browser running in the cloud on OpenAI servers. But there’s already tough competition: Just yesterday, Chinese tech firm ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company) launched its own AI agent for controlling web browsers and performing actions on a user’s.
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