{"id":19302,"date":"2025-07-18T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19302\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:00:08","slug":"openai-transforms-chatgpt-into-an-ai-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19302\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Transforms ChatGPT Into an AI Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI is rolling out<\/a> a major update that transforms ChatGPT from a conversational AI tool into a fully agentic system, capable of executing complex tasks using its own virtual computer and a suite of built-in tools.<\/p>\n

This new capability, available to Pro, Plus and Team users through a feature under tools called \u201cagent mode,\u201d enables ChatGPT to navigate websites, prompt users to log in when needed, conduct analysis, and deliver editable slideshows and spreadsheets. Tasks take several minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started launching agents earlier this year. We launched deep research, we launched operator, and people were very excited about this,\u201d OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a video<\/a> demonstrating agent mode. \u201cBut it became clear to us that what people really wanted was for us to bring those capabilities and more together.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI makes clear that the user stays in control \u2014 ChatGPT asks permission before taking important actions. Users also can interrupt ChatGPT, take over the browser or stop tasks at any time, the company said in a blog post<\/a>. ChatGPT can also ask the user for more details.<\/p>\n

The new system gives ChatGPT the ability to shift between reasoning and action, using a virtual machine to run code, analyze data, and interact with content across the web. For example, it can handle requests like \u201clook at my calendar and brief me on upcoming client meetings based on recent news,\u201d \u201cplan and buy ingredients to make Japanese breakfast for four,\u201d and \u201canalyze three competitors and create a slide deck,\u201d per the blog post.<\/p>\n

The ChatGPT agent\u2019s tools include a visual browser that interacts with the web through a graphical-user interface, a text-based browser for simpler reasoning-based web queries, a terminal and direct API access.<\/p>\n

The model can help automate professional and personal tasks such as creating presentations from dashboards, analyzing market data, planning vacations, organizing dinner parties and booking appointments.<\/p>\n

The company says ChatGPT can perform the work of an early-career investment banking analyst to do things like create a three-statement financial model for a Fortune 500 company or develop a leveraged buyout model for a going-private deal. According to internal testing, the AI model powering ChatGPT agent \u201csignificantly\u201d outperformed its Deep Research and o3.<\/p>\n

See also:\u00a0OpenAI Seeks Piece of ChatGPT-Driven eCommerce Sales<\/a><\/p>\n

A New Risk Surface Emerges<\/p>\n

However, Altman also acknowledged that agent mode creates a \u201cnew risk surface\u201d for hackers since ChatGPT can take actions. \u201cThere are new risks,\u201d Altman said. \u201cPeople are going to need to learn how to use AI agents, and society is going to need to learn to build up defenses against attacks on AI agents as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that end, OpenAI said it is treating ChatGPT agent as having \u201cHigh Biological and Chemical capabilities,\u201d a designation that activates additional safeguards. \u201cWe are exercising caution and implementing the needed safeguards now,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

The model also features privacy protections such as secure browser takeover mode and the ability to delete all browsing data. \u201cChatGPT does not collect or store any data you enter during these sessions, such as passwords, because the model doesn\u2019t need it, and it\u2019s safer if it never sees it,\u201d according to the company.<\/p>\n

ChatGPT agent is now available to Pro users, with access rolling out to Plus and Team users in the following days. Enterprise and Education users will gain access in the coming weeks. Access in Europe is pending.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/p>\n

OpenAI Reportedly Prepping Browser to Take on Google Chrome<\/a><\/p>\n

AI Models and Tools: OpenAI Enables Creation of Shopify AI Assistants<\/a><\/p>\n

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