[Sandbox] OpenAI's Operator Release

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OpenAI rolled out Operator on January 23rd, framed as a research preview of an agent that can use its own browser to perform tasks on your behalf.

While the world has no shortage of coverage, on the platform, we ran four test scenarios to see how Operator stacks up today against where we hope to see agentic AI in the future.

While Operator represents the best foot forward in task oriented agents utilizing the browser, it still only represents a small step in the marathon that is AGI.  Currently, Operator demonstrates reliability in ways we have not seen from the frontier model providers (the open source community would argue we have already seen this; but, the line between useful and interesting is still blurred.

This short introduces a longer form review of where operator, and the hope for where autonomous agentic browser based AI sits, that is a good follow along for more details.

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