OpenAI’s dots assistant packages coding agents for Pro users
Original title: How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
It is in ChatGPT desktop and mobile apps from $100 a month and can research proactively.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos described dots, an always-on assistant released at the company’s developer day in late September and framed as one ongoing conversation rather than many chats. It is available in ChatGPT desktop and mobile apps to Pro subscribers and above, with plans starting at $100 a month, and much of its function overlaps the Codex coding app. OpenAI says dots uses the same privacy controls as ChatGPT, including the option to turn off model training, but controls are not granular and the app refuses read-only cloud-drive access.
Unconfirmed: The reporter’s hands-on view that proactive help is useful but imperfect is not an OpenAI measurement.
- Proactive research runs on a cadence using prior context and granted access.
- Embiricos said early conflict alerts sometimes arrived three minutes ahead.
- OpenAI launched with conservative permission prompts and plans finer controls.
- Hark is cited as a rival that says it does not collect data for ads.
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Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
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