OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor
Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.OpenAI is responding to Meta’s buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. You can interact with a Dot through a text-message-like interface that’s similar to the one offered by Muse, as well as hop on a voice call with it from ChatGPT on the web, desktop, or mobile. Dots can also connect to Microsoft Teams and Slack, where they will carry over the context from your sessions on other apps and devices.
- ▪Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.OpenAI is responding to Meta’s buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots.
- ▪You can interact with a Dot through a text-message-like interface that’s similar to the one offered by Muse, as well as hop on a voice call with it from ChatGPT on the web, desktop, or mobile.
- ▪Dots can also connect to Microsoft Teams and Slack, where they will carry over the context from your sessions on other apps and devices.
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