It can also ask follow-up questions to further personalize the tasks it completes, such as login information for other websites. Users can take control of the screen at any time.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altmanannounced todaythat the free tier of ChatGPT will now utilize the o3-mini model, while paid users will get "tons more." Here's what that entails.

The new tool, called Operator, can shop for groceries or book a restaurant reservation. But it still needs help from humans.

Generative artificial intelligence heavyweight OpenAI on Thursday previewed an AI agent that can carry out tasks on the web for users, as it seeks to enhance its chatbot amid intensifying competition.

The secondhand marketplace says consumers are already reaping the benefits of the AI-enabled customer service tool.

Proponents say ChatGPT could reinvent online search engines and could assist with research, information writing, content creation and customer service chatbots. However, the service has at times become controversial, with some critics raising concerns that ChatGPT and similar programs fuel online misinformation and enable students to plagiarize.

OpenAI plans to expand access to Operator across more user tiers and integrate its capabilities into ChatGPT, broadening its availability and utility. Until then, OpenAI just announced that its latest model, o3-mini is available for free, giving users even more ways to use its chatbot.

The new tool, called Operator, is an AI agent: It relies on an AI model trained on both text and images to interpret commands and figure out how to use a web browser to execute them. OpenAI claims it has the potential to automate many day-to-day tasks and workday errands.

The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.

ChatGPT launched in the fall of 2022 and quickly became the fastest-growing consumer software. The base version is free, but some users pay as much as $200 a month for the service. Around 300 million people use OpenAI's chatbot every week, and the chatbot handles more than 1 billion messages a day.

ChatGPT, which was launched in November 2022, is an advanced AI chatbot that enables natural language interactions. It quickly became the fastest-growing consumer software, reaching 100 million users in two months and now handles over 1 billion messages daily with 300 million weekly active users.