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OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator – its Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users — for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more countries.
OpenAI said Operator will be available in most places where ChatGPT is available, apart from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland.
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Operator, which launched in January in the U.S., is one of several “AI agent” tools on the market that can be instructed to do things like book tickets, make restaurant reservations, file expense reports, or shop on e-commerce websites – features that were first shown off with the Rabbit1 device more than a year ago.
The tool is currently only available to subscribers on the $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan. You can only use it via a dedicated web page, but the company has said it plans to make Operator available with all ChatGPT clients. Operator runs on a separate browser window (that users can take control of at any time) to complete tasks.
There’s ample competition in this space, with companies like Google, Anthropic, and Rabbit, now owned by HP, building agents that can perform similar tasks. However, Google’s project is still on a waitlist, Anthropic gives access to its agentic interface through an API, and Rabbit’s action model is only available to users who own its device.
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