OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
Dots 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. Dots also pull context from connected apps and learn more about your preferences over time.
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 deliveryoptions with pricing for each. The user followed up with their food pick and when they wanted it ordered....
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