Comment by 4corners4sides

This is OpenAI taking the concept of AI coworkers seriously down to the level of “identity” for these agents.

This reminded me of Kairos which came up a few days ago (https://www.kairos.computer/) however I actually feel much better and more inspired at the angle OpenAI took than the angle kairos took. OpenAI’s genuinely feels like a platform for a coworker while Kairos is yet another cool landing page, yet another agent platform with X amount of data integrations. The use cases in OpenAI’s article also felt more concrete and impressive to be honest.

The fact that “as agents have gotten more capable, the opportunity gap between what models can do and what teams can actually deploy has grown.” is definitely true. I think the analogy whose source I have forgot commented that we have F1 cars driving at 60/kmh so for a lot of enterprises they are not even at the deployment limit where improving benchmarks matter. They are still at the level of not being able to provide the right info, not having the right evaluation and improvement frameworks .etc.

Using “Opening the AI Frontier” as a heading would be in really poor taste before OpenAI released their OSS models (earning their ClosedAI moniker) but I guess it’s a bit less offensive now. I think this product combined with OpenAI FDEs is going to make a lot of large industries inaccessible to startups but there may still be value in companies like Kairos watching what OpenAI does in this space and copying them.