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OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?

At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals - primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam Altman walked onstage to cheers and announced Dots, a "real-deal AI" agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, "inspired by the cool agents that we […]

theverge.com ·55m ago

OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?

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Meta's Muse AI agent reaches 5 million downloads faster than ChatGPT qz.com

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