OpenAI upgrades Operator with o3 model for enhanced reasoning, safety

OpenAI is updating the artificial intelligence (AI) model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and interact with certain software inside a cloud-hosted virtual machine to carry out user requests.

Operator will soon run on a model based on o3, one of the latest in OpenAI’s o series of “reasoning” models. Previously, Operator relied on a customised version of GPT-4o.

By several benchmarks, o3 is a more advanced model, particularly on tasks requiring mathematical ability and reasoning.

“We are replacing the existing…