OpenAI upgrades the AI model powering its Operator agent | TechCrunch

OpenAI upgrades the AI model powering its Operator agent | TechCrunch

OpenAI is updating the AI model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and use certain software within a cloud-hosted Virtual Machine to fulfill users’ requests.

Soon, Operator will use a model based on o3, one of the latest in OpenAI’s o series of “reasoning” models. Previously, Operator relied on a custom version of GPT-4o.

By many benchmarks, o3 is a far more advanced model, particularly on tasks involving math and reasoning.

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