ChatGPT can now browse and perform web-based tasks for you

In a quick live stream today, OpenAI announced ChatGPT agent, which improves on its promising, but limited Operator feature announced a few months ago. Here’s how it works

Operator meets Deep Research

What OpenAI did was combine Operator, which already had agentic browsing capabilities, and Deep Research, which can quickly consume, understand, and infer on website content.

The result is an agent that gets spun up on a virtual machine when you assign it a task, and then it…