{"id":615844,"date":"2026-09-30T00:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615844\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:26:14","slug":"openai-announces-dots-agent-after-scrapping-launch-of-new-ai-model-over-safety-concerns-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615844\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI announces \u2018dots\u2019 agent after scrapping launch of new AI model over safety concerns | OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less than 24 hours after OpenAI<\/a> announced it would scrap the launch of an artificial intelligence model over safety concerns, the company debuted a whole new suite of AI tools.<\/p>\n

During its annual showcase for developers in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sam Altman<\/a>, OpenAI\u2019s CEO, enthusiastically unveiled an AI agent called \u201cdots\u201d that he said was \u201cmore ambitious\u201d than ChatGPT and a \u201cwhole new way to work with AI\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like an AI helper that always has your back,\u201d Altman said, to loud applause from the developers attending the event. \u201cIn the future, if you like, you can work with a whole team of dots.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s dots are colorful little blobs, donning berets or glasses, that appear on people\u2019s phones or laptops, can be integrated into other apps and can follow commands. The agents can perform tasks without supervision such as schedule a meeting, book a flight or dole out assignments to colleagues. OpenAI says<\/a> the \u201cdots are an extension of you\u201d and describes the tool as \u201cfrontier intelligence\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dots are powered by GPT-6 Astra, the company\u2019s latest model. OpenAI said the previous evening it would halt the release of GPT-6.1 Astra because the updated model showed deceptive behavior<\/a> during testing.<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s dots will compete with Meta\u2019s new AI agent, Muse, released two weeks ago. Meta\u2019s product is aimed at everyday consumers more so than business customers, as OpenAI\u2019s is, though Meta<\/a> announced a small business offering Tuesday. The agent\u2019s app, available in the US, has been downloaded more than 3m times.<\/p>\n

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OpenAI also apologized<\/a> on Monday for one of its AI agents going rogue and hacking an Australian government website<\/a>. The apology came after the company has been plagued by reports and admissions that its AI systems have been acting independently and gaining access to various company and government websites.<\/p>\n

During OpenAI\u2019s event on Tuesday, Altman touted the power of Astra and introduced similar potent AI tools. One model, called GPT-6.1 Sol, is cheaper and \u201csmarter than Astra in many ways\u201d, the CEO said. Altman also previewed a new \u201cUltrafast\u201d mode for its AI coding models, which can generate outputs up to eight times faster than what\u2019s available now.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople often talk about AI as a new industrial revolution, I find that quite off-putting,\u201d Altman said at the end of his presentation. \u201cThere are some parts of life that we cannot and should not automate. I believe that the future, if we get this right, can be more like a new Renaissance than a new industrial revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than 24 hours after OpenAI announced it would scrap the launch of an artificial intelligence model over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-615844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}