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OpenAI's new agent platform, Dots, was announced earlier this week, and a hands-on look suggests it is enterprise software that can also handle personal errands like ordering dinner. The agents have blobby, anthropomorphic avatars and customisable names, much like Meta's Muse, but the reviewer's impression is that Dots feel like workplace software first and foremost.
The hands-on account suggests the emphasis sits firmly on the workplace side. Dots share the blobby, anthropomorphic avatars and customisable names of Meta's Muse, and the interface is similar too: you chat with the agent in one window while following its work in another. But where Muse is described as ultra-approachable, Dots come across as workplace software that happens to be able to order you a burrito, with the emphasis on work.
Availability is currently limited. OpenAI says multiple Dots will be possible in future, but for now each user gets one. The reviewer named theirs Dotty McDotface, which tells you roughly how seriously the playful side is being taken.


