OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Agent Can Control An Entire Computer And Do Tasks For You
One employee uses it to automate his weekly parking requests at OpenAI’s San Francisco office.
OpenAI is going all-in on the most-hyped trend in AI right now: AI agents, or tools that go a step beyond chatbots to complete complex, multi-step tasks on a user’s behalf. The company on Thursday debuted ChatGPT Agent, which it bills as a tool that can complete work on your behalf using its own “virtual computer.”
In a briefing and demo with The Verge, Yash Kumar and Isa Fulford — product lead and research lead on ChatGPT Agent, respectively — said it’s powered by a new model that OpenAI developed specifically for the product. The company said the new tool can perform tasks like looking at a user’s calendar to brief them on upcoming client meetings, planning and purchasing ingredients to make a family breakfast, and creating a slide deck based on its analysis of competing companies.
The model behind ChatGPT Agent, which has no specific name, was trained on complex tasks that require multiple tools — like a text browser, visual browser, and terminal where users can import their own data — via reinforcement learning, the same technique used for all of OpenAI’s reasoning models. OpenAI said that ChatGPT Agent combines the capabilities of both Operator and Deep Research, two of its existing AI tools.
To develop the new tool, the company combined the teams behind both Operator and Deep Research into one unified team. Kumar and Fulford told The Verge that the new team is made up of between 20 and 35 people across product and research.
More on OpenAI’s ChatGTP Agent on The Verge
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Perplexity’s CEO On Why The Browser Is Artificial Intelligence's Killer App
Aravind Srinivas on Perplexity’s new Comet web browser, the AI talent frenzy, and a future IPO.
Hello, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter. Today, we’re talking about how AI is changing the way we use the web. If you’re like me, you’re probably already using apps like ChatGPT to search for things, but lately I’ve become very interested in the future of the web browser itself.
That brings me to my guest today: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, who is betting that the browser is where more useful AI will get built. His company just released Comet, an AI web browser for Mac and Windows that’s still in an invite-only beta. I’ve been using it, and it’s very interesting.
Aravind isn’t alone here: OpenAI is working on its own web browser, and then there are other AI native web browsers out there like Dia. Google, meanwhile, may be forced to spin off Chrome if the US Department of Justice prevails in its big antitrust case. If that happens, it could provide an opening for startups like Perplexity to win market share and fundamentally change how people interact with the web.
In this conversation, Aravind and I also discussed Perplexity’s future, the AI talent wars, and why he thinks people will eventually pay thousands of dollars for a single AI prompt. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Alright, Aravind, before we get into Comet and how it works, I actually want to go back to our last conversation in April for my newsletter Command Line. We were talking about why you were doing this, and you told me at the time that the reason we’re doing the browser is, “It might be the best way to build agents.”
That idea has stuck with me since then, and I think it’s been validated by others and some other recent launches. But before we get into things, can you just expand on that idea: Why do you think the browser is actually the route to an AI agent?
More on Alex Heath’s interview with Aravind Srinivas on The Verge
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Nvidia's Resumption Of H20 Chip Sales Related To Rare-Earth Element Trading
U.S. Commerce Secretary said Nvidia's plans to start selling its H20 chips are tied to ongoing trade discussions with China regarding REEs.
Rare-earth elements appear to be behind Nvidia’s stance on China. After announcing in June plans to essentially withdraw from the Chinese market, the semiconductor chip and AI giant reversed course and said it was filing an application to restart sales of its H20 AI chip to China.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday that Nvidia’s plans to start selling its H20 AI chips are tied to ongoing trade discussions with China regarding rare-earth elements, according to reporting from Reuters. AMD plans to restart sales of its MI308 AI chip in China too.
Rare-earth elements (REE) like lanthanum and cerium, which are largely mined in China, are necessary components in technology, including rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles. These REEs have become a critical point in the current trade debates between the U.S. and China. Not everyone is happy with this trade development though.
The decision “would not only hand our foreign adversaries our most advanced technologies, but is also dangerously inconsistent with this administration’s previously-stated position on export controls for China,” Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi said in a statement, according to Reuters.
But Lutnick isn’t concerned and told CNBC on Tuesday that China is only getting Nvidia’s “fourth best” chip. “We don’t sell them our best stuff, not our second best stuff, not even our third best,” Lutnick said in the interview.
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Scale AI Layoffs Hit GenAI Team After $14 Billion Dollar Meta Platforms Deal
Scale AI just laid off approximately 200 full-time employees (14% of its 1,400-person workforce) and 500 contractors, according to the company. This comes after Meta invested $14 billion into Scale AI last month as part of a blockbuster AI deal that included the hiring of Scale's ex-CEO, Alexandr Wang, to lead its new Superintelligence group and the purchase of equity in almost half the data labeling startup.
The company is 'restructuring' its GenAI group, according to an email from Scale's interim CEO, Jason Droege, obtained by Business Insider. The GenAI organization is a core part of Scale that manages its work on some of the best-known AI chatbots like xAI's Grok and Google's Gemini. The move was abrupt, one source told BI, with employees shut out of systems and deactivated from Slack even before they woke up.
Questions about Scale AI's long-term sustainability have swirled since Meta's investment, with some of Scale's biggest clients like Google abruptly halting projects in the wake of the deal. The company has also faced questions around the security practices of its training documents, as revealed through Business Insider's reporting.
Scale remains well-funded and is committed to growth and hiring hundreds more employees in different sectors, the startup told BI. "As a result of this restructuring, some members of this org will be leaving Scale today," the email reads. "To ensure a smooth process and give people the necessary space, please do not come into the office."
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