ChatGPT agent
OpenAI · · Agent
OpenAI merged Operator's browser control and deep research's multi-step reasoning into a single agentic mode inside ChatGPT, with its own virtual computer and terminal.
Why it matters
The point the separate agent experiments were folded back into the main product. After this, an agent was a mode of the assistant rather than a distinct thing you went somewhere else to use.
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Sources
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Date 'July 17, 2025' read from the publicationDateText field and the page caption in a Wayback capture of OpenAI's own announcement taken four days later. No capture closer to the announcement exists in the Wayback Machine, and openai.com blocks automated fetches, so the live URL was not read.
- openai.com Official announcement archived