If we had been able to expect a summer break concerning technological development around artificial intelligence, that was without counting on Openai which seems to have decided otherwise.
Indeed, in a Announcement on its site this Thursday, Openai presented his new agent with cases of very promising uses and perfectly fluid management. What to resume a step ahead of Grok 4, the new version of Elon Musk’s AI released last week & NBSP?
Chatgpt turns into a virtual computer
If the chatgpt interface has imposed itself as a standard, including competitors like Google Gemini, Claude d’Anthropic, or even Mistral AI who were strongly inspired, Openai does not seem to be determined to stop on such a good path …
In his new agent, Openai coupled Operator its tool which already makes it possible to interact with websites, with the user experience of Chatgpt which contributed to its success.
Thanks to these new skills, chatgpt users will be able to ask questions that will be able to give rise to navigation and actions to be carried out on websites.
A control controlled by users & NBSP?
In order to anticipate the potential malicious uses of his IA agent, Openai seems to have already all put in place. In its press release, where we can see that Chatgpt can as well Consult traditional websites that Create spreadsheets or even intervene on your agenda some actions are more critical than others.
It is for this reason that Optai should request authorization from the user to carry out certain actions, and even leave the possibility of regain control over certain tasks.
For example, in a presentation Made for The Verge,, Yash Kumar And Isa Fulford two OPENAI employees who worked on this project, say that this new tool could go so far as to make online purchases to make a cooking recipe.
In another register, the agent could organize an evening for a couple, by connecting to Google Agenda to check your availability, then to a reservation platform to find the ideal niche.
Towards new AI agents for Openai & Nbsp?
If these new features demonstrate the very strong ambitions of Openai, this raises real questions about the latest rumors about the company. While Perplexity has just launched his Comet browser, Reuters also announced the imminent arrival of a navigator on the Openai side in the coming weeks.
And if Openai has not yet spoken on this subject, it may well be that this new agent is ultimately only the beginning of a new trend in artificial intelligence …
