Would any live product demo be complete without a few technical difficulties?
At its annual DevDay conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled its new AI agent called Dots — which, like Meta’s Muse, comes with a cute mascot. Powered by its GPT-6 Astra model, the agents are intended to be “always-on,” doing stuff for you in the background constantly.
Dots didn’t seem quite switched on, though, when OpenAI product team member Holly Li tried to show off its capabilities.
Li calls the AI on her phone like you might a human secretary, and a few rings later the agent, which she’s nicknamed “Dottie,” picks up.
