OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
These agents complete tasks on a user’s behalf and are depicted as cute blobs you can personalize and assign multi-step projects to complete.OpenAI’s Dots are powered by the startup’s GPT-6 Astra model. A core selling point is their “always-on” design—unlike a single-turn chatbot experience, these agents constantly crawl the web and attempt to complete whatever task you assign to them. The Dot proactively saw that the user’s calendar showed they were working through dinner and messaged with two GrubHub food delivery options with pricing for each.
- ▪These agents complete tasks on a user’s behalf and are depicted as cute blobs you can personalize and assign multi-step projects to complete.OpenAI’s Dots are powered by the startup’s GPT-6 Astra model.
- ▪A core selling point is their “always-on” design—unlike a single-turn chatbot experience, these agents constantly crawl the web and attempt to complete whatever task you assign to them.
- ▪The Dot proactively saw that the user’s calendar showed they were working through dinner and messaged with two GrubHub food delivery options with pricing for each.
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Reece RogersGearSep 29, 2026 1:15 PMOpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s MuseThese cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.Courtesy of OpenAICommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyDots are OpenAI’s new always-on AI agents, announced at the company’s DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday in San Francisco. These agents complete tasks on a user’s behalf and are depicted as cute blobs you can personalize and assign multi-step projects to complete.OpenAI’s Dots are powered by the startup’s GPT-6 Astra model. A core selling point is their “always-on” design—unlike a single-turn chatbot experience, these agents constantly crawl the web and attempt to complete whatever task you assign to them.
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