Sam Altman unveils “dots,” OpenAI’s new AI personal agent

Updated on: September 29, 2026 / 2:10 PM EDT / CBS News

OpenAI unveiled a personal AI agent at its annual developer conference on Tuesday, joining a growing number of companies promising to make consumers' lives easier with virtual assistants.

The company's new AI agents, called "dots," will help perform workplace and other tasks such as scheduling meetings, making travel arrangements, budgeting, debugging computer systems and writing software code.

"It's like an AI helper that always has your back, inspired by the cool versions of what we all watched in movies growing up," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during a keynote address at DevDay, OpenAI's annual developers conference in San Francisco.

"You can delegate ambitious pieces of work the way you would to a high agency engineer or a chief of staff that you work with," he added.

Users can access dots through OpenAI's ChatGPT platform, Altman said, adding that in the future, people will be able to converse with the agents by phone and text. In a blog post, the company described dots as "always-on agents built to handle everything."

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