The AI company's new product can order a wedding dress and complete other complex tasks. CEO Sam Altman called it "a new level of capability for AI systems."

On Thursday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT agent, a tool that's capable of navigating the web and performing tasks on your behalf. As teased in an X post before the livestream, ChatGPT agent combines the autonomous capabilities of its Operator agent and the reasoning intelligence of its Deep Research tool.

A chatbot for our purposes is a large language model (LLM) that accepts an input prompt and produces a response. An agent also tries to respond to some human directives by wielding a set of tools and services, often taking several steps to complete whatever mission a human instructed it to perform.