OpenAI Goes After Meta's Muse With Always-On Dots Agents
OpenAI is ready to launch its own AI agent, designed to operate 24/7 as a digital assistant that continuously works on your projects. At its DevDay developer conference in San Francisco today, OpenAI introduced dots, an “always-on” AI agent that employees can offload work to and companies can use to monitor and handle certain processes. CEO Sam Altman described dots as an AI that'll always have your back, and can help human employees focus on higher-level work."It's the way I always wanted to work with AI," Altman said, noting that a dot is smart enough to learn your preferences.
- ▪OpenAI is ready to launch its own AI agent, designed to operate 24/7 as a digital assistant that continuously works on your projects.
- ▪At its DevDay developer conference in San Francisco today, OpenAI introduced dots, an “always-on” AI agent that employees can offload work to and companies can use to monitor and handle certain processes.
- ▪CEO Sam Altman described dots as an AI that'll always have your back, and can help human employees focus on higher-level work."It's the way I always wanted to work with AI," Altman said, noting that a dot is smart enough to learn your prefe
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- ▪ OpenAI launches Dots, new ‘always-on agents’ you can assign tasks to — 9to5Google
- ▪ OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse - WIRED — Google News
- ▪ OpenAI just launched Dots to do things for you — and take on Meta’s Muse — Tom's Guide
- ▪ OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse — WIRED
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Watch out, Muse. OpenAI is ready to launch its own AI agent, designed to operate 24/7 as a digital assistant that continuously works on your projects. At its DevDay developer conference in San Francisco today, OpenAI introduced dots, an “always-on” AI agent that employees can offload work to and companies can use to monitor and handle certain processes. CEO Sam Altman described dots as an AI that'll always have your back, and can help human employees focus on higher-level work."It's the way I always wanted to work with AI," Altman said, noting that a dot is smart enough to learn your preferences.
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