**OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Agent: A Significant Advancement in AI Functions**
During a recent live stream, OpenAI presented the ChatGPT agent, a progress over the earlier released Operator feature. This innovative tool boosts the AI’s capability to carry out tasks independently while engaging with users more efficiently.
### Operator Combines with Deep Research
The ChatGPT agent fuses the features of Operator, which encompasses agent-based browsing abilities, with Deep Research, a utility aimed at quickly absorbing, understanding, and inferring information from online content. This amalgamation enables the agent to function on a virtual machine, undertaking designated tasks autonomously.
The agent can pose follow-up questions to clarify user intentions and can prompt users to log into different services to finalize transactions. Users retain oversight throughout the entire process, able to step in or provide further instructions at any moment.
OpenAI’s configuration for the ChatGPT agent stands out, as it integrates several essential features:
– **Text-based browsing** via Deep Research
– **Visual browsing** through Operator
– **An integrated terminal** for code generation and data analysis
– **API calls** (both public and private) for services like Google Drive, Google Calendar, GitHub, and SharePoint
Moreover, the ChatGPT agent provides users with a timeline of its browsing and reasoning journey, increasing transparency and clarification regarding how it forms its conclusions.
### New Opportunities, New Security Challenges
OpenAI has stressed its dedication to security, training its model to identify dubious or harmful websites that may try to trick users into sharing credentials or making purchases on fraudulent sites. Nonetheless, the company recognizes that this is an uncharted territory, urging users to be vigilant when using the ChatGPT agent.
### Availability
As noted by OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, the ChatGPT agent is currently accessible to Pro users, with intentions to extend it to Plus and Team users shortly. Pro users will receive 400 queries each month, while Plus and Team users will obtain 40 queries monthly. The firm also plans to broaden accessibility to Enterprise and Edu users by the end of July.
As this groundbreaking tool becomes available, numerous users are left contemplating its potential uses in their everyday tasks and workflows.
