OpenAI is working on an AI agent that’s expected to launch in January. According to Bloomberg, the agent, codenamed “Operator” will be able to take over a person’s computer and perform tasks for the the user like booking flights and writing code.
CEO Sam Altman hinted that this was coming in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with other OpenAI executives, saying “the next giant breakthrough will be agents.” Regarding future plans for more autonomous AI, CPO Kevin Weil added that the ability for ChatGPT to messages users first will be “a big theme in 2025.” In September, users reported that ChatGPT was messaging them first. At the time, OpenAI said this wasn’t supposed to happen, but it might be a sign of things to come.
Agents are shaping up to be the next frontier for the AI industry to tackle. Microsoft has AI agentsfor its Copilot model that can be customized by …