Watch Sam Altman, Romain Huet, Tejal Patwardhan, and Holly Li announce and demo 20+ launches at OpenAI DevDay, including dots, ChatGPT Spaces, GPT-6.1 Sol, Astra Ultrafast, and more.
What Sam Altman said
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Sam Altman introduced Dots, always-on AI agents that work 24/7, handle tasks like monitoring bug reports, drafting PRs, and planning budgets, and can be accessed via text or voice. He announced ChatGPT Spaces for team collaboration with Dots, available to Pro, Business, Premium, and Enterprise users today, with specialist Dots for Enterprise and Microsoft integration. Altman launched ChatGPT 6.1 Sol, a cost-effective model with near-Astra intelligence, and UltraFast, offering 300 tokens per second and 25 times speed via Pro-500. He introduced the Decisions API for sub-second responses, Codex in the cloud, and OpenAI Private Tension with zero-data retention. He reported 99% reliability, a 45% reduction in time to first token, and 1.2 billion ChatGPT users. Altman announced sign-in with ChatGPT for 16 launch partners, plugin extensions, and 30+ launch partners for distribution.
Key takeaways
Dots and Spaces are available today to ChatGPT Pro, Business, Premium, and Enterprise users, with conversations not eating into usage.
UltraFast delivers 300 tokens per second and 25 times speed via Pro-500, with Pro-200 subscription reopening today.
Codex is now in the cloud, allowing tasks to start on one device and continue on another.
OpenAI Private Tension offers zero-data retention for frontier model safety.
Sign-in with ChatGPT is launching with 16 partners, letting users use their existing ChatGPT tokens.
39:50It failed the vast majority of times on a task that took a day or longer but as of July and August our models have taken on over a third of day-long research tasks with no intervention required. So what does this mean?
Good morning. It is great to have everyone here and everyone joining us online. Thank you for coming. I think this is going to be our best day yet. We have shipped a lot and you have built amazing things with it. You find uses for those models that we have thought of. You've helped make our products better. You have sent us thousands of requests, mostly on Twitter, for ideas for ways we can improve. We try to work through them as fast as we can. You asked us to bring Codex to Linux, so we did that.
You asked us to work across multiple folders in one project, so now you can do that too. And you asked for Codex on your phone, so we brought it there. It gives us a lot of joy to build things that you find helpful. And the next thing is one of the things that you've asked for the most. It's something we have been excited about too, so let's get into it. We are kicking you off with a product that we believe is going to be a whole new way to work with AI. It's like a helper that always has your back. It can expand your potential, working 24/7 to take on the deluge you don't want to do so you can focus on higher-level work.
Now, you may have seen early signs of what this can look like in consumer assistants that help you book a reservation or buy a plane ticket. And these are helpful, but they are trivial to what the technology can do. So we want to be more ambitious. It knows what's going on. It knows what matters to you. You don't have to tell it every little thing to do. We want AI to feel like that. We want it to feel like magical things that it does without you having to ask. So today we're introducing Dots.
Dots are remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle anything you can think of. They bring AI into a whole new form factor to work and give you more time and attention so you can do more things that you care about. Let's meet Dots.
I'll keep things moving and check on things when you think it's important. The latest consumer experience numbers came in on time. I've been updating your board meeting deck. So I've cut your migration in Mar-a-Lago meet notes.
