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ChatGPT’s paid subscribers will have access to ChatGPT agent, a new tool capable of actively completing tasks instead of just answering questions.
Agentic AI is considered to be the next generation of AI. As its name suggests, agentic AI refers to large language models (LLMs) that have the agency to act on their own initiative.
OpenAI has launched an example of an agentic AI in the form of ChatGPT agent. It describes this new tool as “Agentic AI = LLM + planning + tools + the ability to act. It’s not just generating text – it’s doing things on your behalf.”
Built on its core LLM (GPT-4.5), ChatGPT agent is “wrapped in an agentic layer that lets it act, browse, fill forms, run code or connect to services”.
It works by accessing the internet through its own browser or “virtual computer”, handling complex tasks from start to finish just as a person would.
In blog post on its website, OpenAI says some of these tasks it would carry out on behalf of users include:
- “Look at my calendar and brief me on upcoming client meetings based on recent news”
- “Plan and buy ingredients to make Japanese breakfast for four”
- “Analyse three competitors and create a slide deck”.
The ChatGPT agent will navigate websites, synthesise information and present results to the user, even summarising its findings using slideshows and spreadsheets.
However, OpenAI wants to reassure users that they are “always in control”. No actions are taken without ChatGPT requesting permission first, with the user being able to “take over the browser or stop tasks at any point”.
This new agentic capability is not available to everyone, but only those in the paid subscription tiers including Pro, Plus and Team.
According to OpenAI, the launch of ChatGPT agent “is just the beginning”. The company says it will “continue to iteratively add significant improvements regularly, making it more capable and useful to more people over time”.
OpenAI was co-founded by tech entrepreneur Sam Altman in 2015. In November 2022, it launched its ChatGPT tool, which boasts over 400 million weekly active users.
Having unleashed AI to the masses, Altman is now developing technologies – such as the The Orb biometric device that can distinguish real people from AI bots – to resolve challenges his company’s pursuit of powerful AI has caused, such as the proliferation of deepfakes.
He has also admitted that the use of ChatGPT contributes to carbon emissions. He said last month that the use of “please” and “thank you” alone on its tool costs the firm “tens of millions of dollars” due to the extra energy usage of dealing with longer queries.
A survey published last month by The Guardian into academic misconduct reported that the 7,000 cases of AI cheating among university students was just the “tip of the iceberg”.
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