{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-23-openai-operator/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-23-openai-operator/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2025-01-23-openai-operator","date":"2025-01-23","date_precision":"day","short_title":"OpenAI launches Operator, a browser-using agent","deck":null,"takeaway":"OpenAI released Operator, a research-preview agent that uses its own browser to complete web tasks, powered by the Computer-Using Agent (CUA) model built on GPT-4o with RL; it was later merged into ChatGPT agent (July 2025).","category":"agents","category_label":"Agents","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Introducing Operator (OpenAI)","url":"https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"openai.com"},{"n":2,"title":"Computer-Using Agent (OpenAI)","url":"https://openai.com/index/computer-using-agent/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"openai.com"},{"n":3,"title":"Introducing ChatGPT agent (OpenAI)","url":"https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-agent/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"openai.com"}],"official":3,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["OpenAI"],"title":"OpenAI launches Operator, a browser-using agent","summary":"OpenAI released Operator, a research-preview agent that uses its own browser to complete web tasks, powered by the Computer-Using Agent (CUA) model built on GPT-4o with RL; it was later merged into ChatGPT agent (July 2025).","key_facts":["Launched 23 January 2025 for US ChatGPT Pro users","CUA: 38.1% on OSWorld and 58.1% on WebArena, per OpenAI","Asks users to take over for logins, payments and CAPTCHAs","Folded into ChatGPT agent on 17 July 2025"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["agents","computer-use","browser"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nOpenAI made a consumer agent that navigates websites by seeing and clicking like a person.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nBrought GUI agents to consumers and marked 2025's framing as the 'year of agents'.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2024-10-22-claude-computer-use","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-22-claude-computer-use/","date":"2024-10-22","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Anthropic releases computer use for Claude 3.5 Sonnet","deck":null,"takeaway":"Launched GUI agents at the frontier; OpenAI's Operator and Google's Project Mariner followed within months.","category":"agents","category_label":"Agents","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Anthropic"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":null}