The meeting introduced and demoed the new ChatGPT Agent, a unified AI agent capable of complex, multi-step real-world tasks using a virtual computer equipped with text and visual browsers, a terminal, and integration with external services.
The team reviewed the agent's features, collaborative workflow, tool selection, and security considerations, with multiple live demonstrations including event planning, swag ordering, and automated evaluations.
The ChatGPT Agent launches today for Pro, Plus, and Team users, with wider rollout for Enterprise and EDU users expected by the end of the month.
Attendees included Yash, Jing, Casey, Issa, and Sam, representing product, research, and engineering teams.
Action Items
By end of day – Product Team: Complete rollout of ChatGPT Agent for Pro, Plus, and Team users.
By end of month – Product Team: Launch ChatGPT Agent for Enterprise and EDU users.
ASAP – Communications Team: Update documentation and user guidance to include new security warnings and agent usage best practices.
Ongoing – Engineering Team: Continue monitoring for prompt injection and other novel attack vectors; update safeguards as needed.
Ongoing – Research Team: Gather early user feedback to inform rapid iteration and improvements.
ChatGPT Agent Launch and Demo
Launched ChatGPT Agent, a unified AI agent combining capabilities of previous "Deep Research" and "Operator" tools.
The agent can autonomously use a virtual computer with text/visual browsers, a terminal, access to APIs, and generate/modify documents, slides, and spreadsheets.
Demonstrated real-world scenarios including wedding planning, gift and outfit recommendations, hotel booking, swag ordering, and itinerary creation.
Live demos highlighted agent's ability to:
Take multi-step instructions
Clarify and ask for user input
Be interrupted mid-task and receive additional instructions
Collaborate and confirm before taking sensitive actions (e.g., purchases)
Technical Approach and Model Training
Reinforcement learning used to train model on hard tasks requiring multiple tools and decision-making about tool selection.
Agent trained for collaborative, interruptible, multi-turn workflows, allowing user intervention and mid-task clarifications.
Benchmarked against internal and industry-standard tasks, showing strong performance in intelligence, agentic, browsing, spreadsheet, and banking benchmarks.
Security, Trust, and Rollout Considerations
Highlighted potential security risks, especially prompt injection attacks, and described layers of defensive monitoring and real-time updates.
Emphasized importance of user caution with sensitive data, using “takeover mode” for confidential information.
Rollout plan:
Available immediately for Pro, Plus, and Team users (Pro: 400 queries/mo, Team: 40 queries/mo).
Enterprise and EDU access expected by month-end.
Decisions
Proceed with ChatGPT Agent launch for Pro, Plus, and Team users today — based on product readiness and successful integration of previous tool functionalities.
Rollout to Enterprise and EDU users by end of month — dependent on further monitoring and updates.
Open Questions / Follow-Ups
Monitor effectiveness of prompt injection defenses and gather real-world attack data post-launch.
Assess user understanding of new agent workflow and guidance—determine if further documentation or education is needed.
Gather feedback for prioritizing additional connectors and tool integrations.