OpenAI Rolls Out Dots Assistants for Ongoing AI Work Across Apps

OpenAI is gradually rolling out Dots to eligible paid ChatGPT users. Each assistant can continue an assignment across connected apps after a conversation ends. OpenAI has started rolling out Dots, which represent persistent AI assistants that can keep working after a ChatGPT conversation ends. For eligible paid users, a Dot can carry an assignment on its own cloud computer and through connected apps, send progress updates, and return for decisions or approvals. For work in a user’s apps, a Dot can draw only on services the user connects from a plugin catalogue that OpenAI says supports more than 4,000 apps. It uses its own cloud computer and browser to pursue an assignment, keeps the task’s context when a conversation ends, and sends updates or questions as the work continues.