OpenAI CEO announces new AI agent and avoids mention of security concerns at developer conference

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unveiled "Dots," a set of "remarkably capable, always-on" AI agents designed to complete ongoing tasks proactively for users, at the company's annual developer conference on Tuesday, where he did not address the security concerns that led OpenAI to hold off on releasing a new AI model the day before. OpenAI also announced GPT-6.1 Sol, an upgraded version of GPT-6 Sol, and a premium speed tier called "Ultrafast." The announcements came as OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman joined Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Tesla and SpaceX's Elon Musk and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump, who has pushed back against greater government oversight of AI.

Getting your Trinity Audio //trinityaudio.ai player ready... By KAITLYN HUAMANI, AP Technology Writer OpenAI CEO Sam Altman https://apnews.com/hub/sam-altman introduced a “remarkably capable, always-on” artificial intelligence https://apnews.com/hub/artificial-intelligence agent at an appearance Tuesday where he avoided any reference to security concerns around the company’s most advanced models. At the company’s annual developer conference, Altman made a slew of product announcements and updates, including the company’s new agents, called Dots. The agents, designed to complete ongoing tasks proactively on behalf of users, are a competitor of Meta’s personal agent Muse https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-zuckerberg-connect-conference-glasses-muse-75cf267699e215c7f3da3dc7eea31295 , which exploded in popularity after Meta’s own conference last week. Dot agents will be “like an AI helper that always has your back, inspired by the cool versions of what we all watched in movies growing up,” Altman said. On Monday, OpenAI said it was holding off on the release of a new AI model out of security concerns https://apnews.com/article/open-ai-artificial-intelligence-altman-trump-astra-5afb865b2cddc439efdcf31ebdc406a5 voiced by its researchers. The disclosure followed broader calls within the industry to decelerate the pace of the technology’s advance https://apnews.com/article/ai-slowdown-challenges-anthropic-openai-trump-b61f28b6212338e88c0baec31f661701 to let safety measures catch up. In his remarks on stage, Altman did not address the scrapped model, but he did offer some parting words about how the AI boom should be considered more like a period of renaissance than an industrial revolution. “The best version of AI is not about making people cogs in a giant machine, ever whirring faster and faster. There are some parts of life that we cannot and should not automate,” Altman said. “AI should be about giving people more power over their own lives, more tools to create, learn, discover, expand knowledge.” The company also announced the release of GPT-6.1 Sol, an upgraded version of its model GPT-6 Sol, and a premium speed tier called “Ultrafast,” among other launches and updates. OpenAI’s announcements came as Altman’s industry peers were meeting with President Donald Trump https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-anthropic-musk-595796511f110fc006cca0d01329733e Tuesday. While many in Silicon Valley have called for the government to help establish guardrails for the technology, Trump has pushed back against the idea of greater government oversight https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-guardrails-data-centers-b85df16775ff7e9611a456b061a0e4b9 of AI. While Altman was not in attendance because of the conference, OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman was at the White House, along with Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Several other industry leaders joined them, along with senior administration officials and House Speaker Mike Johnson.