Key Points:
• OpenAI releases ChatGPT Pro, a $200/month subscription that allows users to access Operator, a research preview of an AI agent that can perform tasks on the web.
• Operator is powered by Computer-Using Agent (CUA) technology, which combines GPT-4o’s vision capabilities with advanced reasoning through reinforcement learning.
• OpenAI also announces the Stargate Project, a $500 billion initiative to build new AI infrastructure in the United States, with the goal of securing American leadership in AI and creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.
As AI continues to evolve, it’s essential to stay up-to-date on the latest developments. In this article, we’ll explore the start of the next frontier for OpenAI, Anthropic’s thoughtful solution to a common AI critique, and presidential AI executive order ping-pong.
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Pro, a $200/month subscription that allows users to access Operator, a research preview of an AI agent that can perform tasks on the web. Operator is powered by Computer-Using Agent (CUA) technology, which combines GPT-4o’s vision capabilities with advanced reasoning through reinforcement learning. This technology allows Operator to interact with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and perform digital tasks without using OS- or web-specific APIs.
CUA is still early and has limitations, but it sets new state-of-the-art benchmark results, achieving a 38.1% success rate on OSWorld for full computer use tasks, and 58.1% on WebArena and 87% on WebVoyager for web-based tasks. These results highlight CUA’s ability to navigate and operate across diverse environments using a single general action space.
Meanwhile, Anthropic has launched a promising new tool for its Claude chatbot called Citations. Citations allows Claude to ground its answers in source documents, providing detailed references to the exact sentences and passages it uses to generate responses. This feature increases recall accuracy by up to 15% and is particularly useful for customer support queries and document summarization tasks.
In other AI news, President Trump has revoked the Biden administration’s executive order on AI policy and replaced it with his own executive order. The new order emphasizes the safe, secure, and trustworthy development of AI and requires AI-generated content to include watermarks for transparency. However, the order also revokes past government policies that "act as barriers to American AI innovation" and authorizes the development of an AI action plan within 180 days.
Finally, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has released its R1 model family into the wild, which can run locally with performance comparable to OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4o model. However, the model has a state-approved view of world history, which may raise concerns about the potential implications of AI on global politics.
As AI continues to evolve, it’s essential to stay informed about the latest developments. In the next edition of 9to5Neural, we’ll explore more AI news and updates. In the meantime, if you’re interested in trying out Operator, you can sign up for ChatGPT Pro and access the research preview.
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