Key Takeaways OpenAI's new Operator AI agent could have huge implications for Google Search, gig economy companies like Uber, and digital advertisers, according to analysts.Operator, released Thursday to users of OpenAI's $200 monthly Pro plan,

The AI contender to the apparent market leader finished a $2 million funding round and now has a $60 billion valuation.

OpenAI is putting its focus on AI infrastructure with Stargate at a time when rivals like China's DeepSeek are closing the gap on its AI models.

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The cash infusion comes on top of the $2 billion that Google has already provided to the artificial intelligence developer. Separately, Anthropic is said to be raising $2 billion from a group of institutional investors led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The latter deal is expected to value the company at $60 billion.

Stargate, the project to build AI-focused data centers in the US, will reportedly get $19 billion from OpenAI and SoftBank.

The company says the CUA’s reasoning technique, which they call an “inner monologue,” helps the model understand intermediate steps and adapt to unexpected input. Under the hood, CUA takes screenshots of web pages and uses a virtual mouse and keyboard to navigate.

Google challenges OpenAI with free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, offering million-token processing, native code execution, and breakthrough performance in math and science benchmarks.

Meta Platforms plans to invest $60-$65 billion in 2025 to enhance its AI infrastructure, aiming to compete with OpenAI and Google. CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions their AI, Llama 4, becoming the industry benchmark and expects it to serve over 1 billion users by 2025.

WIth one foot out the White House door, the Biden administration issued 2 documents Musk is now using in his battle to break up OpenAI and Microsoft.

In a video, an OpenAI employee demonstrates the tool by making it fetch a pasta recipe from the Allrecipes website and order the necessary ingredients through Instacart. Another video shows how the tool can be used to plan trips using Priceline. Operator can also tap into services like DoorDash, OpenTable, StubHub, Thumbtack, and Uber.