Automation & Agents
OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
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Dots are OpenAIâs new always-on AI agents, announced at the companyâs DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday in San Francisco. These agents complete tasks on a userâs behalf and are depicted as cute blobs you can personalize and assign multi-step projects to complete. OpenAIâs Dots are powered by the startupâs GPT-6 Astra model. A core selling point is their âalways-onâ designâunlike 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…