OPENAI NEARS LAUNCH OF AI AGENT TOOL TO AUTOMATE TASKS FOR USERS

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OpenAI is preparing to launch an AI agent codenamed 'Operator' that will be able to use a computer to take actions on users' behalf. It plans to release the tool as a research preview in January. OpenAI has been working on several agent-related research projects. The one nearest to completion is a general-purpose tool that executes tasks in a web browser. OpenAI and its competitors are moving towards agents as they are seeing diminishing returns from their costly efforts to develop more advanced AI models.