OpenAI announces Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with its own cloud computer, available in ChatGPT on web, mobile, and desktop to Pro users (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
OpenAI has launched Dots, an always-on AI agent powered by the GPT-6 Astra model that runs on its own cloud computer. The agents are available in ChatGPT on web, mobile and desktop for Pro-plan subscribers, who pay $100 per month. Dots can scan user data, draft emails, suggest travel plans and refine documents.
Written from all 6 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- The Verge·OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor
OpenAI introduced Dots, agentic AI assistants that run continuously in the background and can perform tasks across more than 4,000 supported apps. Powered by GPT-6 Astra, each Dot uses its own cloud computer to browse the web and learn user preferences over time. Users interact with a Dot via a text-message-style interface or voice call on ChatGPT’s web, desktop, or mobile platforms.
- Wired·OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
- TechMeme·OpenAI announces Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with its own cloud computer, available in ChatGPT on web, mobile, and desktop to Pro users (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
- Engadget·Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them
- TechCrunch·OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
- The Next Web·OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers
- TechMeme·Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT (Casey Newton/Platformer)
- Wired·The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
OpenAI unveiled Dots, an always-on agent powered by the GPT-6 Astra model that proactively completes tasks and makes autonomous decisions, available to Pro-plan subscribers at $100/month. Meta’s Muse, a free alternative, offers similar functionality with a more playful interface. Both agents can scan user data, draft emails, suggest travel plans, and refine documents, aiming to automate routine chores.
Related stories
- OpenAI is testing a "Persistent mode" in Codex, designed to let AI agents "continue working until put to sleep" and proactively generate follow-up tasks (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)4 outlets
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI5 outlets
- OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 after government green light — and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’6 outlets
- Kimi K2.6 runs agents for days — and exposes the limits of enterprise orchestration5 outlets