How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

OpenAI released dots, an always-on personal assistant available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers ($100/month and up), at its developer day in late September. Alexander Embiricos, who leads OpenAI's enterprise product team, told TechCrunch Disrupt that dots grew out of the company's agentic coding tools and that its "proactive research" feature periodically reviews what it knows about a user to propose helpful actions. He said the agent has the same privacy controls as ChatGPT but acknowledged the need for "super, super, super granular controls."