OpenAI launched over 20 new products at its annual DevDay event held today in San Francisco, with the headliner coming in the form of new desktop agents called Dots. The offering is a competitor to Meta’s Muse agent and the Instinct assistant.
Dots are always-available assistants you can assign work to by chatting through text, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. They can complete multistep tasks, OpenAI said, such as keeping track of a project, preparing for an appointment, or following up on a to-do list. The agent proactively completes the work, leveraging any apps the user has granted it access to, and only reaches out to the human when something requires their review or attention.
