Category: Technology | Published: 2025-07-29
ChatGPT As An ‘AI Agent’
OpenAI has formally launched what it calls the ChatGPT agent, transforming its well-known conversational model into a proactive digital assistant capable of completing real tasks, independently choosing tools, and reasoning through multi-step workflows.
This new functionality, now available to paying subscribers, marks a significant turning point. For example, rather than simply responding to prompts, ChatGPT can now act as a true AI agent, performing tasks such as planning a meal, generating a financial forecast, writing and formatting a presentation, or summarising your inbox. Crucially, it can also interact with websites, manipulate files, and run code using its own virtual machine.
_“We’ve brought together the strengths of our Operator and deep research systems to create a unified agentic model that works for you - using its own computer,”_ OpenAI explained in a blog post on 17 July. _“ChatGPT can now handle complex tasks from start to finish.”_