OpenAI now allows teams to create custom bots that can do work on their own

OpenAI gives business, enterprise, education, and educator plan users access to cloud-based “workspace” agents available in ChatGPT that can perform business tasks. in Her blog post,OpenAI provides examples of agents like this Finds product reviews on the web It reports back in Slack and to the sales agent Follow-up emails can be crafted In Gmail.

These new agents come on the heels of growing interest in agents across the AI ​​landscape, especially after OpenClaw – the AI ​​agent formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot which… She pursues herself As “AI that actually does things” – It went viral. OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger Now works with OpenAI. OpenAI also faces increasing competition from Anthropic, which offers its services Claude Cowork’s private agent It can complete tasks for you using files from your computer, as well as a separate platform for Making independent agents.

OpenAI’s new workspace agents can be shared within organizations, “so teams can build an agent once, use it together in ChatGPT or Slack, and improve it over time.” The company says agents are designed to “gather context from the right systems, monitor team processes, request approval when needed, and continue working across tools.”

However, agents can signal the end of OpenAI’s “GPTs,” the custom chatbots the company announced In 2023. The company says that workspace agents are an “evolution” of GPTs and that “GPTs will remain available as teams test workspace agents through their own workflows.” Sometime soon, OpenAI will also “make it easier to turn GPTs into workspace agents.” When reached for comment, OpenAI spokeswoman Taya Christianson referred to the blog post but did not share additional information.