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Overview
- OpenAI has begun offering Dots to eligible ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise customers and includes the first dot at no extra cost for Pro and Business Premium users.
- Each dot runs on its own inspectable cloud computer and browser, keeps project context across ChatGPT, Slack, and Teams, and connects to more than 4,000 apps through plugins.
- Dots perform 'proactive research' in the background with read-only app connections that cannot send messages or change content, and any action that would affect an account or share data goes through an automatic review that may ask the user to approve it.
- OpenAI is piloting specialist organization dots with separate identities and system access and is working with Microsoft to integrate those agents into Agent 365 for enterprise management.
- Key operational details still pending include mobile access timing, how dot-initiated tasks count against usage limits, and exact enterprise pricing and admin controls, all of which will shape adoption and workplace trust.