# research preview insights

Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged research preview.

Canonical: https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/research-preview/

## Topics
- [Agent systems](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/agents/): Agent runtimes, handoffs, tools, and the boundaries that make them reviewable.
- [Governance](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/governance/): Policy, identity, authorization, approvals, and evidence for consequential work.
- [Infrastructure](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/infrastructure/): Model serving, sandboxes, tool services, and deployment boundaries.
- [Models](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/models/): Inference choices, local serving, compatibility, and operational tradeoffs.

## Stories
- [GPT-4.5 showed why a research preview needs its own evidence record](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-gpt-4-5-research-preview-evidence/)
  OpenAI introduced GPT-4.5 as a research preview in February 2025. The historical release shows why preview status, safety evidence and deployment scope need separate records.
- [OpenAI released Operator as a U.S. Pro research preview for browser-based task execution](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-openai-operator-january-2025/)
  OpenAI released Operator on January 23, 2025 as a U.S. Pro research preview that used a browser to type, click and scroll through web tasks.


## More information

- [Documentation index](https://rangoon.ai/llms.txt)
- [AI access and policies](https://rangoon.ai/ai/)
- [Source repository](https://github.com/hypler-dev/rangoon)