In a staff meeting on Wednesday, OpenAI's leadership announced plans to release the tool in January as a research preview and through the company's application programming interface for developers, said one of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The planned release is part of a broader industry push towards agents, or AI software that can complete multi-step tasks for users with minimal supervision.
Anthropic unveiled a similar agent that can process what's happening on the user's computer in real time and take actions on their behalf.
OpenAI-backer Microsoft also recently launched a set of agent tools designed to send e-mails and manage records for workers.
