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:
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