India, July 18 -- Meet OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent, the company's newest tool designed to take on complex, multi-step tasks for you that don't just chat, they act. Your "virtual computer" or Iron Man's J.A.R.V.I.S. that can browse, analyze, schedule, plan, and even shop .

While sitting with The Verge, Yash Kumar and Isa Fulford, the product and research leads behind ChatGPT Agent, said the tool runs on a brand-new model that OpenAI built specifically for this project.

ChatGPT Agent is powered by reinforcement learning, the same technique used in other OpenAI reasoning models, and brings together tools like a text browser, visual interface, and terminal access so users can import and work with their own data. Essentially, it's combining the b...