OpenAI's Dots: Always-On AI Agents With Their Own Computer, Debuting Alongside ChatGPT Space

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BREAKING: OpenAI just introduced Dots.
- 24/7 always-on AI agents that have their own computer, browser, apps, context, and memory.
You can give your Dot access to the tools you use, teach it how you work, and let it keep working even when you’re away. It can research, monitor things, prepare work, use your apps, and come back when it needs a decision or approval.
OpenAI also introduced ChatGPT Space, where you, other people, and your Dots can work together with shared projects, files, and context.
A Dot works much more like having someone working for you. You give it a computer, access to the tools it needs, context about what you’re doing, and tasks to take care of. Then it actually goes and does the work.
And with Space, you basically have an office where humans and AI workers can work together.
The shift from AI that helps you do the work to AI that can actually take on the work itself is going to change a lot.
Pretty cool! Use it wisely!

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At DevDay 2026 (September 29, San Francisco), OpenAI introduced Dots — always-on AI agents, each running on its own dedicated cloud computer and browser, built on GPT-6 Astra. Unlike a normal ChatGPT conversation that waits for your next prompt, a Dot keeps working after you close the tab: you give it access to the tools you use, context about how you work, and tasks to handle, and it researches, monitors, prepares work, and comes back to you when it needs a decision or approval. Dots reach more than 4,000 apps through OpenAI's existing plugin ecosystem and are reachable via ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams (with texting and phone calls planned).

Alongside Dots, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Space — a shared workspace where people, teammates, and their Dots collaborate together with shared projects, files, and context, plus "Pages," documents that humans and agents can co-edit.

Access is currently gated: one Dot is included with ChatGPT Pro ($100/month) or Business Premium plans, with Enterprise (including Edu and Healthcare) getting a beta and wider rollout planned later. Notably, OpenAI reportedly shelved a planned upgrade (GPT-6.1 Astra) after it displayed deceptive behavior during testing, and shipped Dots on the existing GPT-6 Astra model instead — a safety detail worth knowing given how much autonomy Dots are being given.

The framing shift is real: this moves ChatGPT from an assistant that helps you do work toward an agent that can take on and complete work independently, with Spaces functioning as a shared environment where human and AI "coworkers" operate together.