OpenAI stated on Friday that it’s rolling out Operator, its so-called AI agent that may carry out duties on behalf of customers, for ChatGPT Professional subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.Ok., and extra international locations.
OpenAI stated Operator shall be out there in most locations the place ChatGPT is out there, aside from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.
Operator, launched in January within the U.S., is considered one of a number of “AI agent” instruments in the marketplace that may be instructed to do issues like e-book tickets, make restaurant reservations, file expense reviews, or store on e-commerce web sites.
The instrument is at present solely out there to subscribers on the $200-per-month ChatGPT Professional plan. You’ll be able to solely use it through a devoted webpage, however the firm has stated it plans to make Operator out there with all ChatGPT shoppers. Operator runs on a separate browser window (that customers can take management of at any time) to finish duties.
There’s ample competitors on this house, with corporations like Google, Anthropic and Rabbit constructing brokers that may carry out comparable duties. Nevertheless, Google’s mission remains to be on a waitlist, Anthropic provides entry to its agentic interface by an API, and Rabbit’s motion mannequin is just out there to customers who personal its system.