OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse

In one demo example shared by OpenAI, a user’s Dot helps plan dinner. 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. The user followed up with their food pick and when they wanted it ordered. In another example, a user collaborated with the agent to launch a new website.

Users can message Dots through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, with the user’s context shared with Dots across modes. In addition, Pro users can join a waitlist to text with their Dots in iMessage or RCS messaging on Android.

The Dots rollout starts today for subscribers to ChatGPT’s Pro tier that costs $100 a month. OpenAI often launches new features first for this higher subscription tier and then rolls them out to a larger subset of users over time. Users can start by controlling one Dot, but the company is expected to eventually roll out the ability to control multiple agents at the same time.

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The Dots launch is also part of OpenAI doubling down on its efforts to attract more enterprise clients. On stage at DevDay, CEO Sam Altman announced “specialist Dots” for enterprise customers tuned for specific tasks, like accounting, email marketing, and legal analysis. It adds to the trend of AI agent coworkers being integrated into more professional workflows.