OpenAI has launched new agent functionality in ChatGPT that can perform tasks outside the chatbot, even while you're away.

The hybrid agent blends capabilities from OpenAI’s earlier Operator and Deep Research tools, combining web access, automation, and in-depth analysis.

Isa Fulford, the research lead for OpenAI’s new ChatGPT agent, needed to order a bunch of cupcakes, so she asked the AI tool to do it for her. “I was very specific about what I wanted, and it was a lot of cupcakes,” she says. “That one took almost an hour—but it was easier than me doing it myself, because I didn't want to do it.”