OpenAI launches dots, always-on cloud agents on GPT-6 Astra

dots are agents from OpenAI that are meant to keep working between conversations and check back with the user at key points. The launch post says only that they are powered by GPT-6 Astra and are "always-on agents built to handle everything." The promotional video attached to it shows what that is meant to look like; this account relies on its narration (an automatic speech transcript), since the visuals were not analyzed.

In the video, a user names their dot, and it says it will keep things moving and check in when something important needs approval. Later it reports on work done in the meantime: updating a website with approved designs, revising a board-meeting deck, testing an app change and putting the results in a pull request, finding a backup cake vendor for a wedding, and rescheduling an interview that clashed with a child's recital. The user responds to each update, approving some and redirecting others, and asks the dot to prepare a staged rollout for approval rather than release it.

Because the video is a promotional demonstration, it shows the intended pattern of background work with approval checkpoints, not evidence of how reliably dots perform it. The collected material does not say which services a dot connects to, how approval rules are set, what it costs or who can use it. OpenAI's developer account published a separate developer-focused announcement the same day, covered here.