GoKawiilOpenAI's new Dots AI agent stalls during live DevDay demo
At its DevDay conference in San Francisco, OpenAI unveiled a new always-on AI agent called Dots, powered by its GPT-6 Astra model. During a live demonstration, product team member Holly Li called the agent by phone and asked for a testing update, but it took an extended pause and never gave a substantive answer, only repeating that it was 'still checking.'
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The stumble occurred in front of a live audience while OpenAI was trying to showcase Dots as a rival to Meta's Muse agent, which could color early impressions of the product's reliability. OpenAI says the agent is meant to handle tasks like monitoring app feedback or running research analyses autonomously, so visible lag in a simple query may raise questions about readiness for more complex, unsupervised work.
- OpenAI introduced Dots, an always-on AI agent, at its DevDay conference.
- The agent, powered by GPT-6 Astra, failed to respond promptly during a live phone demo.
- Dots is positioned as OpenAI's competitor to Meta's Muse AI agent.
Source: futurism.com — Frank Landymore, 2026-09-30
Published there as: “New OpenAI Product Fails Spectacularly During Live On-Stage Demo”
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