Dan Shipper and Alex Duffy in Chain of Thought Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Today, OpenAI announced Operator, a new research preview of ChatGPT that acts as an agent for your repetitive tasks.

The company says the CUA’s reasoning technique, which they call an “inner monologue,” helps the model understand intermediate steps and adapt to unexpected input. Under the hood, CUA takes screenshots of web pages and uses a virtual mouse and keyboard to navigate.

The new tool, called Operator, is an AI agent: It relies on an AI model trained on both text and images to interpret commands and figure out how to use a web browser to execute them. OpenAI claims it has the potential to automate many day-to-day tasks and workday errands.

OpenAI has released its Operator AI agent that can perform actions and accomplish tasks for you in a web browser.

OpenAI just launched Operator, an AI agent capable of performing tasks autonomously, including filling out forms and ordering groceries.

The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence.