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OpenAI launches Dots, an always-on personal assistant with agent capabilities

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OpenAI unveiled Dots at its developer conference as a personal assistant featuring persistent agent capabilities. Subscribers can connect tools like calendars and email, enabling Dots to proactively remind users of calendar conflicts and upcoming deadlines, as well as conduct autonomous research over time intervals. Users retain control over data, including the ability to opt out of model training and restrict the assistant's local resource access; notably, Dots refuses read-only access to cloud storage. The system is designed to provide help suggestions based on user context while operating continuously in the background.

Written with AI from the reporting · updated 10/27/2026

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  1. 1Unclassified fact stationOct 27, 10:41single sourcereport-time onlyrevised

    OpenAI发布dots助手

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  1. TechCrunch · AIRelated fact: single sourceFact occurrence time unverifiedSource report revised
    OpenAI launches dots, an always-on personal assistant at developer conference

    Report first recorded Oct 27, 10:41

    OpenAI unveiled its always-on AI personal assistant "dots" at its developer conference in late September. The assistant is available to ChatGPT Pro tier subscribers and can connect to calendars, email and other tools to help users get work done. It represents OpenAI's effort to make its coding tools more intuitive by repackaging them into a persistent agent that operates in the background without constant prompting.

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