On Friday, OpenAI announced the deployment of Operator, its AI agent designed to perform tasks on behalf of users, to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in various countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the U.K., among others.
OpenAI stated that Operator will be accessible in most regions where ChatGPT is currently available, with exceptions including the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland.
Initially launched in January in the U.S., Operator is part of a growing suite of AI agent tools in the market. These tools are capable of autonomously executing tasks such as booking tickets, making restaurant reservations, filing expense reports, or shopping on e-commerce platforms.
Presently, the tool is available only to subscribers of the $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan. Users can access Operator through a dedicated webpage, with OpenAI indicating plans to eventually integrate it with all ChatGPT clients. Operator operates in a separate browser window, which users can manage at any point to complete tasks.
The competition in this field is notable, with companies like Google, Anthropic, and Rabbit developing similar task-performing agents. However, Google’s project remains on a waitlist, Anthropic provides access to its agentic interface via an API, and Rabbit’s action model is limited to users owning its specific device.
