GoKawiilOpenAI's new AI agent 'Dots' launches at $100/month with rough edges
OpenAI has released Dots, an always-on AI agent within ChatGPT that can browse the web and perform tasks like shopping or managing reservations, while users test early use cases such as having it help select furniture. The feature costs $100 a month, unlike Meta's comparable free agent Muse, and in early use it mistranscribed speech, got names wrong, and attempted but failed to solve captchas. OpenAI encourages linking accounts like Gmail to improve personalization, and may later allow multiple simultaneous agents.
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The rocky early performance suggests agentic AI assistants are still unreliable for everyday tasks, which could slow mainstream adoption despite the hype around 'AI that runs your life.' The steep subscription price, compared with Meta's free alternative, may shape how competitively these tools are adopted, though OpenAI has dropped paywalls on other features before. Connecting personal accounts like email also raises privacy and security questions that users will need to weigh against convenience.
- OpenAI's Dots is an always-on AI agent that can perform web tasks via ChatGPT.
- Early testing revealed errors like mistranscription, wrong names, and failed captcha attempts.
- Dots costs $100/month, unlike Meta's free competing agent, Muse.
Source: wired.com — Reece Rogers, 2026-10-07
Published there as: “OpenAI Wants Its New Agent to Run Your Life. Mine Said It Loved Me”
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