Task: Shopping
OpenAI Operator launch demo
OpenAI's January 23, 2025 livestream introducing Operator, a browser-using agent. The team shows it ordering pizzas on DoorDash, finding house cleaners, and picking event tickets, with the agent stopping to ask the person to confirm.
Introduction to ChatGPT agent
OpenAI's July 17, 2025 livestream introducing ChatGPT agent mode. In the demo, the agent plans for a friend's wedding: finding an outfit that fits the dress code, hotels, and a gift, using its own browser.
Project Mariner shops for paints in Chrome
Google DeepMind's demo of Project Mariner, a Chrome extension prototype. The agent finds a famous painter, a colorful painting on Google Arts and Culture, then adds a paint set to an Etsy cart and asks before checkout.
Comet for Android
Perplexity's video for Comet on Android. The assistant adds a scarf under $30 to a cart, pulls a takeaway from an article, and quizzes the user on a textbook.
Copilot Mode in Edge
Microsoft's video for Copilot Mode in Edge. Copilot plans a museum walking tour, compares TVs, scales recipes, reads gym membership terms, buys a hoodie if returns are free, and unsubscribes from shopping emails.
Gemini in Chrome auto browse preview
Google team members talk through Gemini in Chrome and preview auto browse, where Gemini browses for you to handle tedious web chores, and discuss how they handle things like CAPTCHAs and safety checks.
Opera Browser Operator orders flowers live on stage
In April 2025 Opera ran its first live, unfiltered demo of Browser Operator in front of journalists, and the agent ordered a bouquet of yellow flowers online. Opera called it possibly the first flower order placed by an AI agent.
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