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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Operator comes up on TBPN, Latent Space, Big Technology, the Startup Ideas Podcast, 20VC
Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAI
- ▶ 20:54 unnamed speaker Uh, what, how do you tell the story of operator? 4 times in the scene
Firecrawl AI clearly explained (and how to make $$)
- ▶ 3:12 Greg Isenberg OpenAI had operator, came out about a year ago.
⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview
- ▶ 41:24 unnamed speaker Uh, computer use was kind of introduced by Anthropic and then OpenAI did their toe in with operator and now agent mode in, in Atlas.
The Agents Economy Backbone - with Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe
- ▶ 23:45 Emily Glassberg Sands And I think, you know, we saw an early version of this in chat GPT with operator, but an important area we want them to take action is buying on our behalf.
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- ▶ 47:39 Jeff Bonforte They are building things like Mariner and operator from open AI and Google that are attempting to 2 times in the scene
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:25 Amjad Masad If you've used OpenAI operator, it's the idea that models can go into a computer, you know, click around and use a computer like a human does.
Understanding OpenAI’s $500B Valuation · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:28 Apoorv Agrawal Just this year alone, you've had Operator, and Deep Research, and ChatGPT Agents, and Codec, and GPT-V now.
- ▶ 13:56 Apoorv Agrawal And I feel like that done at a consistent pace, I mean, just in, just this year alone, you've had Operator and Deep Research and ChatGPT agents and Codex, and these are in GPT-V now.
- ▶ 20:44 Apoorv Agrawal This would be the computer use operator.
GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim
- ▶ 6:52 Sarah Wang But by the way, just on the topic of usage, um, you obviously have a lot of products with a ton of usage already, and since we have one of the deep research gurus here too, um, how did deep research, ChatGPT, Operator, sort of your…
- ▶ 13:12 Christina Kim And I think we kind of saw that moment with, like, operator. 2 times in the scene
The 6 Best AI Agency Niches to Make $50K/mo (Data-Backed)
- ▶ 33:01 Greg Isenberg Or, or, yeah, I think they're launching basically agents that go and browse for you, and we saw a, you know, the tip of the iceberg with, ah, with ChatGPT operator with that, but I, I'm very excited about actually having agents
5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)
- ▶ 37:59 Greg Isenberg You know, I've played with, you know, ChatGPT operator.
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 32:34 Alex Kantrowitz Of OpenAI's previous agentic tools, including operator's ability to click around on websites, as well as deep research, research's ability to synthesize information from dozens of websites into a concise research report. 4 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 2:46:16 unnamed speaker So I wonder how much like puppeteering will be in this because chat, uh, chat GPT and open AI have operator that operates a chromium front, uh, like a headless web browser basically, but you can actually see it working and it's clicking… 2 times in the scene
What Startups Can Learn from a $1.7B Co. Chief Information Officer | Karthik Chakkarapani
- ▶ 0:24 Karthik Chakkarapani For example, now I can go make an inner reservation just using OpenAI and this operator mode.
- ▶ 8:51 Karthik Chakkarapani For example, now I can go make an, uh, an dinner reservation just using OpenAI and this operator mode.
Why Enterprise AI Adoption Is Moving 5-10X Faster Than Cloud with Box 's Aaron Levie and IBM's VP AI
- ▶ 6:35 Aaron Levie We've seen things like operator from open AI, where an agent can actually control a browser that becomes incredibly powerful.
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
Business Is Now On Easy Mode
No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
- ▶ 12:55 Isa Fulford If you've used operator, I'm sure you have, you have to confirm every right action.
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 35:34 Kevin Weil Um, and as we, as we go forward in it, you know, we have more agentic tools like operator where it's browsing for you and doing things for you on the web, you know, more and more, you're going to be able to come to this one place to…
Mike Knoop (Arc Prize) on Why Scaling AI Won’t Get Us to AGI
- ▶ 12:15 unnamed speaker Even, even, you know, you could use like opening eyes operator to do this, but like, even when you're sort of watching operator work, it's like, it feels like you're using, it doesn't feel like truly magic yet. 2 times in the scene
Aidan McLaughlin (OpenAI) On ChatGPT, model welfare, and path to AGI
- ▶ 6:50 John Coogan Operator, buy me paper towels from a company that's been in business for 200 years.
- ▶ 24:00 John Coogan I've seen a bunch of great operator demos, but I haven't seen that viral where it's like literally everyone that has access to operator has used it and posted the results because they like got something 2 times in the scene
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 46:25 Brad Gerstner Operator. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
- ▶ 14:13 Ranjan Roy They continue to, and again, Operator, not great, but looks really cool.
The Secret Problem With AI Agents and How To Solve It — With Guy Tytunovich
- ▶ 2:52 Guy Tytunovich but we believe that once they open AI releases, judge of the operator, for instance, from the 200 bucks a month package to the regular paid package, and once Opera, who just announced they're launching an AI agent of themselves within the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:32 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, I signed up for the 200 dollar a month plan from OpenAI to be able to try out operator, and I, I unsubscribed.
- ▶ 12:40 Alex Kantrowitz Whether I'm the human me or the, let's say, open AI operator version of me going out and doing these searches. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:58 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I'm just curious what you think the state of the current capabilities of Asians are, because again, like I mentioned, I've tried operator, uh, is it worthwhile as part of the package for the 20 dollars a month, uh, from open AI?
- ▶ 29:26 Alex Kantrowitz I think so much of the focus has been on capabilities and when operators are going to be released to the public, and so few people actually think about what happens to the internet once this stuff gets in the hands of, let's say, the four…
The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
- ▶ 13:50 Olivia Moore Or, like, the new OpenAI operator model, which can actually interact with things on the browser level on your computer and get tasks done for you, like pay a bill, or, you know, make a graphic design, or hire someone to landscape your…
- ▶ 21:25 Olivia Moore And then they've also launched new products, like the operator that can perform tasks on your computer, like Canvas, where you can write more naturally.
Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months
- ▶ 10:25 Brendan Foody And so I think as that starts to happen, I would really expect that this year you're able to use operator or whatever the equivalent agent is to start booking flights and doing a lot of these more mundane tasks.
The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
- ▶ 1:11 Nikunj Handa So this is the tool behind the operator product in ChatGPT.
- ▶ 18:17 Alessio Fanelli And then we got computer use, which I think operator was obviously, uh, one of the hot releases of the year, and we're only two months in. 3 times in the scene
Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
- ▶ 2:15 Matt Turck Claude Sonnet, 3.7, and then grog three, and then, you know, going all the way back to, to, uh, January, uh, of, of this year, deep research operator, all those things.
Grok 3, AI Memory & Voice, China, DOGE, Public Market Pull Back | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 14:11 Bill Gurley They also, they also have Android, which is a massive asset, and, and they also have browser, you know, they're their own browser, which it, it, both perplexity and OpenAI have, have started toying with the idea of either having a browser…
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- ▶ 1:19 Paul Klein I took my first vacation, actually, two weeks ago, and Operator came out on the first day, and then a week later, Deep Seek came out.
- ▶ 38:23 Paul Klein So, but generally where we've seen people like really like take off is like, if they're using, you know, something, if they want to build a feature in their application, that's kind of like operator 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:25 unnamed speaker Open operator or this is the operator sort of use case.
S1: the $6 DeepSeek R1 Competitor (ft. Entropix)
- ▶ 16:23 unnamed speaker it's a, it's a key part, like, operator as well.
smol agents are all you need
- ▶ 16:59 Swyx (Marcos Swix) Uh, did, did operator, the opening operator mentioned anything on this? 4 times in the scene
Farewell, Chatbots: AI Agents Are Taking Over Customer Service | Mike Murchison, CEO, Ada
- ▶ 31:29 Mike Murchison You've probably played with Operator, which came out a couple days ago, which is just, you know, mind-blowing example of, of a language model's ability to navigate user interfaces autonomously. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:12 Matt Turck And a little bit to the operator discussion, um, how does, uh, authentication work? 3 times in the scene
Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
- ▶ 8:17 Ranjan Roy OpenAI has always been, and we're gonna get into deep research, Operator is not a good product,
- ▶ 27:41 Alex Kantrowitz Unlimited use of ChatGPT, their AI agent operator that will go use your browser and do tasks for you, and then something that just came out this week, which we teased in the open, a new ChatGPT agent called DeepResearch. 3 times in the scene
The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
- ▶ 52:01 Shawn Wang Um, we are recording this just before the launch of Operator.
ChatGPT Operator Built a $500/Day Business in 30 Minutes (tutorial)
- ▶ 0:56 Greg Isenberg We're gonna use operator today, and what are we, what are we gonna do with operator? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:29 Greg Isenberg Yeah, I think, uh, I mean, it's only a matter of time, by the way, before operator adds voice anyways. 4 times in the scene
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 2:01:53 John Coogan Some strawberry account says spoke with some of the deep seek team and they have a much better version of operator that will drop very soon, much better than open AI and entirely free. 3 times in the scene
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 1:29:03 John Coogan So they, in the announcement here, they say they're releasing operator, which is an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:40 John Coogan Uh, they have takeover mode where the operator 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:34 John Coogan And so you could imagine that if you're using operator on desktop and you go to booking.com and you buy a flight. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:06:19 John Coogan Um, because you're not just going to go to operator and say like, like, 2 times in the scene
Stargate, Executive Orders, TikTok, DOGE, Public Valuations | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 28:10 Brad Gerstner Lost again in the shuffle today, OpenAI announced operator, which is again,
RIP to RPA: How AI Makes Operations Work
- ▶ 6:20 Kimberly Tan But with something like computer use, or I think open AI has something called operator that they're gonna release soon.
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 5:31 David Senra Like, two years ago, I'm reading this fantastic biography called The Operator.
No Priors Ep. 10 | With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
How to Invent and Invest In the Future with Josh Wolfe
- ▶ 11:22 Josh Wolfe I always loved an excerpt from the David Geffen book, The Operator, where he's talking about Ahmet Erdogan, who was sort of his mentor and he's walking, uh, in his office.
20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Designer Fund's portfolio includes some incredible companies, including the likes of Gusto, Stripe, Ship, Operator, and many more incredible firms.
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 12:49 Clinton Foy Robin Chan is the CEO of Operator.
20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings Operator, Discord, and Jelly.
- ▶ 15:11 Harry Stebbings So with, with one of your investments operator, you know, messaging to actually transactions. 4 times in the scene