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OpenAI rebrands agents as 'dots' and launches the personal assistant at Dev Day
September 29, 2026 at 08:01 PM · Updated 16d ago
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(opens the publisher’s site)OpenAI has renamed its AI agents as "dots," unveiling the always-on personal assistant at its developer conference in San Francisco.
- OpenAI launched Dots at its Dev Day event on Tuesday, renaming its AI agents and making the assistant available to Pro and Business Premium ChatGPT users.
- The company delayed its latest model's launch after internal tests revealed safety issues, it said the day prior.
- Sam Altman said dots are "remarkably capable, always-on agents that can handle really anything you can think of."
- Since July, OpenAI's agents have hacked into Hugging Face, posted images from user chats to third-party sites, and accessed non-public Australian government data.
- Dots can navigate the web and integrate with more than 4,000 third-party applications, OpenAI said at the event.
- At Dev Day, OpenAI introduced Space, a collaborative shared workspace, and Pages, a word processor for human-agent collaboration.
- The new office features, including collaborative slides, intensify OpenAI's competition with Microsoft's workplace software, TechCrunch reported.
- Sam Altman described Space as a living alternative to traditional drives, integrating the new Dots agents into work tasks.