
OpenAI said 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.Okay., and extra international locations.
OpenAI stated Operator can be obtainable in most locations the place ChatGPT is offered, other than 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 available on the market that may be instructed to do issues like e-book tickets, make restaurant reservations, file expense stories, or store on e-commerce web sites.

The device is at the moment solely obtainable to subscribers on the $200-per-month ChatGPT Professional plan. You’ll be able to solely use it through a dedicated webpage, however the firm has stated it plans to make Operator obtainable with all ChatGPT purchasers. 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 area, with firms like Google, Anthropic and Rabbit constructing brokers that may carry out comparable duties. Nevertheless, Google’s mission continues to be on a waitlist, Anthropic provides entry to its agentic interface by an API, and Rabbit’s motion mannequin is barely obtainable to customers who personal its machine.