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OpenAI · · Agent
A research preview of an agent that drives a browser on the user's behalf — filling forms, ordering things, navigating sites — released to ChatGPT Pro subscribers.
Why it matters
The first consumer-facing agent from OpenAI that acted on the open web rather than answering questions. It moved computer-using agents from a developer capability to a subscription product.
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Sources
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Dateline 'January 23, 2025' read from a Wayback capture of OpenAI's own announcement taken two days later; the same string appears in the page's own publicationDateText field. openai.com blocks automated fetches, so the live URL was not read.
- openai.com Official announcement archived