Open AI introduces its GrokBot competitor: Dots

OpenAI on Tuesday afternoon launched Dots, an AI assistant that can work in the background and across thousands of apps, joining Meta and other big tech companies in the race to build mass publicly available AI agents.

Open AI announced Dots at its annual developer conference, describing them as assistants that can keep working on tasks even when you’re not actively using them.

Dots can connect to more than 4,000 apps, and users can give a Dot a task and ask it to work in the background, using its own cloud computer.

OpenAI says users can connect with their Dot agent in ChatGPT, Slack, Microsoft Teams, with texting coming soon, using them to update projects and research information.

The Dots agents will compete with Muse, the AI agent Meta released earlier this month, Gemini Spark, which Google released in May, and Instinct, an AI agent start-up.