OpenAI DevDay: Always-On Agents and the Model That Makes Them Affordable
AI First Pod · Oct 5, 2026 · 6:12
AI First Pod · Oct 5, 2026 · 6:12
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OpenAI held DevDay today with a coherent product bet: Dots for always-on agents running in ChatGPT, Slack, and Teams across four thousand apps, and GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth the cost of Astra to make long-running agents economically viable. Also: the safety lead who just quit published a resignation essay in The Atlantic arguing trial-and-error safety is structurally broken for the capability level we've already reached — and an unconfirmed leak of a ten-trillion-parameter model called Bel.
