Will OpenAI release a fully autonomous AI agent product before July 2027?

Resolution criteria This market resolves to YES if OpenAI officially releases a product, service, or feature that is classified as a fully autonomous AI agent before July 1, 2027. For the purposes of this market, an autonomous AI agent is defined as an AI system capable of executing multi-step tasks, navigating web browsers, or interacting with software interfaces to achieve user-defined goals with a high degree of independence (i.e., without requiring continuous human-in-the-loop prompts for every step). Note on existing products: OpenAI has already released several products with autonomous agentic capabilities, including: Operator (released January 2025) ChatGPT Agent (released July 2025) ChatGPT Work (released July 2026) OpenAI Presence (released July 2026) If the market creator determines that any of these existing releases (or their currently available versions) already meet the standard of a "fully autonomous AI agent product," this market may resolve to YES immediately. If the creator intended a higher bar of autonomy—such as an agent operating with zero human oversight over long durations, a general OS-level controller, or a specific milestone on OpenAI's internal 5-level AGI roadmap (e.g., Level 3 or 4)—the creator is encouraged to edit this description to clarify the exact technical capabilities or product names required to trigger a YES resolution. Otherwise, any new official release of a designated autonomous agent product by OpenAI before the deadline will qualify. The primary source of truth will be OpenAI's official product announcements via the OpenAI Newsroom or major tech publications like TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Background OpenAI tracks its progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) using a five-level framework: Chatbots: Conversational AI (e.g., early ChatGPT) Reasoners: Human-level problem solving (e.g., o-series and GPT-5 reasoning models) Agents: AI systems that can act autonomously on a user's behalf over extended periods Innovators: AI that can aid in the invention of new ideas Organizations: AI capable of executing the work of an entire organization OpenAI has steadily commercialized Level 3 capabilities. Following the early 2025 research preview of "Operator" (a web-browsing agent), they integrated these capabilities into "ChatGPT Agent" and subsequently launched "ChatGPT Work" and "OpenAI Presence" in July 2026 to let users run parallel, long-running agentic workflows across enterprise systems. This market watches for further or more advanced autonomous agent rollouts leading up to July 2027. This description was generated by AI. Review and verify everything here yourself. You can edit, replace, or delete any part of this description, including the resolution criteria. You do not need to trust the AI output.