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OpenAI releases Dots as rival to Meta’s Muse, plus a $500 monthly plan
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OpenAI launched over 20 new products at its annual DevDay event held today in San Francisco, with the headliner coming in the form of new desktop agents called Dots.
Key facts
- It’s the same cost as GPT-6 Sol, released last week, at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens
- OpenAI also shared new statistics on its user numbers: Over 1.2 billion people now use ChatGPT each week, along with 2.5 million businesses
- OpenAI also unveiled a new $500 a month plan, which offers the highest usage allowance and makes Codex eight times as fast
- OpenAI seems to be pushing power users toward this pricey new plan by decreasing the included usage on its $200 a month Pro plan
Summary
Dots are always-available assistants you can assign work to by chatting through text, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. The teams at OpenAI have been working long hours in recent weeks to prepare for the huge number of launches, one source at the company tells Fortune, something another employee publicly alluded to in an X post. As the example above shows, users can name their Dots for a bit of personalization and choose their shape. To ensure Dots don’t go rogue—especially in light of OpenAI’s agents continuing to hack websites and act in unintended ways during training—OpenAI built them to ask users for permission before performing sensitive actions, such as changing a password, permanently deleting data, or installing software.