OpenAI Gave AI Agents Their Own Computers at DevDay 2026. Here's Everything It Announced

At its DevDay 2026 event, OpenAI unveiled a suite of workplace-focused products including Dots—always-on AI agents that run on their own cloud computers and use GPT-6 Astra—and ChatGPT Space, a shared workspace where humans and agents edit the same documents. The company also introduced GPT-6.1 Sol, positioned as a lower-cost alternative that nearly matches Astra on coding and agentic tasks, a new Ultrafast speed tier bundled with a $500-a-month Pro 500 plan, and several developer-facing releases like an open-source Codex harness and a Decisions API preview.

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Why It Matters

These announcements push AI from a consultative chatbot model toward autonomous, always-running assistants that can act across apps and persistently manage work, which raises deployment, productivity and security considerations for businesses that adopt them. OpenAI’s simultaneous moves on cheaper models, higher-speed tiers, open-source tooling, and security scanning aim to address performance and operational needs while responding to prior agent safety incidents.

Key Facts

Event: OpenAI DevDay 2026, San Francisco
Headline product: Dots — always-on agents running on GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computers
Included with: First Dot included for Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets
App integrations: Dots can connect to more than 4,000 apps and are reachable via ChatGPT, voice calls, Slack and Teams (texting coming soon)
Shared workspace: ChatGPT Space with Pages, available to Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans (mobile create coming later)

OpenAI used DevDay 2026 to present a portfolio of products aimed at turning AI into continual, action-taking coworkers. The marquee feature, called Dots, are "always-on" agents that run on GPT-6 Astra and are provisioned with their own cloud computer and web browser. OpenAI says Dots can integrate with more than 4,000 applications, learn user preferences from feedback, and be accessed through ChatGPT, voice calls, Slack and Teams, with text access forthcoming. Built-in guardrails determine when a Dot can act autonomously; certain sensitive actions, like changing passwords, remain reserved for humans.

To let teams collaborate with both people and agents, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Space, a shared workspace where teammates, ChatGPT, and each person's Dot work from the same project knowledge. Space introduces Pages, documents designed for joint human-and-agent editing, and supports tagging coworkers and assigning tasks inside a Space. The feature is available on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans on desktop and web; mobile can read and share Pages now, with creation tools coming soon.

On the model side, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Sol as a lower-cost option that the company says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer interaction and professional tasks while charging roughly one-fifth of Astra’s token prices. Sol is available in the API and in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu users. OpenAI also confirmed it paused the planned launch of GPT-6.1 Astra earlier in October because it did not meet safety standards.

Performance-focused offerings include an Ultrafast tier that generates tokens up to 8x faster in Codex (about 300 tokens per second) and up to 6x faster in the API, available on the Pro 500 ($500/month) and Enterprise plans. OpenAI said the tier has run on Cerebras hardware and demonstrated it live, although the onstage demo experienced failures. Developer tooling updates comprise a Decisions API in limited preview for fast multiple-choice style routing using the Luna model, and an open-source Codex harness—the software wrapper that lets agents use tools and run commands—published on GitHub. For security, OpenAI introduced Codex Security Cloud to scan repositories, check commits and prepare fixes automatically; it includes models from the Daybreak Blue security effort and is available to Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu customers.