The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence.

Following Google and Anthropic, OpenAI has entered the computer-using agents sector with Operator. Operator outperforms Claude Computer Use and Google Mariner on key performance benchmarks.

OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post. “Using its own browser, it can look at a webpage and interact with it by typing,