OpenAI Frontier is a single platform for controlling your AI agents

Managing people is difficult. Managing AI agents is also difficult. That’s why OpenAI is launching a new platform called OpenAI Frontier, which it says will help companies “build, deploy and manage” AI agents, even those not made by OpenAI itself.

OpenAI’s description of Frontier sounds similar to HR AI. “Frontier gives agents the same skills people need to succeed at work: shared context, onboarding, hands-on learning with feedback, and clear permissions and boundaries,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post. The similarity makes sense: OpenAI said the product was inspired “by looking at how companies are already scaling people.”

Frontier is available today, but only to an unspecified “limited group of customers,” with broader availability expected over the next few months. Intuit, State Farm, Thermo Fisher and Uber are among the first companies to adopt OpenAI Frontier, with “dozens of existing customers” also trying it out, OpenAI said. It’s not clear how much Frontier will cost either. At a press conference, Chief Revenue Officer Dennis Dresser declined to disclose prices at this time.

Frontier is an “agent interface,” said Barrett Zoff, general manager of business-to-business at OpenAI. He recently returned to OpenAI after that An assignment in the Thinking Machines Laboratory. Right now, many companies simply run AI agents on top of everything they use, which often means fragmented tools, disconnected workflows, and siled data. Frontier sits on top of this to create a “common business context” for agents, connecting them to everything needed to work and communicate effectively. These connections mean that deployed agents can work across different environments, although OpenAI said Frontier also allows users to set boundaries, making it “possible to use with confidence in sensitive and regulated environments.”

Frontier will also make it easier for human teams across organizations to “hire AI coworkers” to do tasks like running code and analyzing data. The agents will also “build memories” and can be evaluated by human operators, making them more useful over time, OpenAI said.

OpenAI’s ultimate goal sounds suspiciously similar to Sauron’s motivations in Lord of the Rings: one platform to rule them all. “By the end of the year, most digital work in leading organizations will be directed by people and executed by fleets of agents,” said Fidji Simo, chief applications officer at OpenAI. “And what I dreamed of was having one platform to create and manage all our agents.”

Interestingly, this means “acknowledging that we are not going to build everything ourselves,” Simo said. Frontier will use open standards and can be populated with agents designed by OpenAI, an enterprise client, or another AI company.

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