OpenAI launches Operator--an agent that can use a computer for you

OpenAI claims that Operator outperforms similar rival tools, including Anthropic's Computer Use (a version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet that can carry out simple tasks on a computer) and Google DeepMind's Mariner (a web-browsing agent built on top of Gemini 2.0). The fact that three of the world's top AI firms have converged on the same vision of what agent-based models could be makes one thing clear. The battle for AI supremacy has a new frontier--and it's our computer screens. "Moving from generating text and images to doing things is the right direction," says Ali Farhadi, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). "It unlocks business, solves new problems."