In an interview after OpenAI DevDay, core executive Tibo Sottiaux said the market has not fully priced in the second-order effects of AI, highlighting three trends: agents will handle most internet operations, models will become faster and cheaper, and multimodality will merge seamlessly. He also disclosed plans to merge ChatGPT Chat and Work, embed Dots into ChatGPT for 1.2 billion users, a decision not to release the Astra 6.1 model, 16 partners adopting Sign in with ChatGPT, shared-economics revenue sharing, a dual-track compute safety model, and the appointment of newcomer Ahmed Ibrahim to lead all compute resources and application deployment.
At OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco on September 29, 2026, CEO Sam Altman announced the launch of a new AI agent product called Dots and argued that AI's impact will surpass the Industrial Revolution and should be more like the Renaissance. He criticized tokens as a poor metric, said Dots can handle tasks and notifications for him and may run on devices developed by OpenAI, advocated a middle path on AI safety, and said now is the best time to enter the job market.
Tipster Alexey Shabanov reports that OpenAI is set to launch a persistent AI assistant codenamed "O," expected to be unveiled at OpenAI DevDay on September 29. Clues in ChatGPT configuration files, including the display name and "-o" email suffix, suggest the agent may run continuously and have an independent identity, with the project possibly linked to "Aeon."