OpenAI unveiled Dots, AI agents that act as personal assistants. It announced them at its developer conference in San Francisco. Dots compete with Meta’s Muse, Google’s Gemini Spark and start-up Instinct. Sam Altman said current virtual assistants are trivial compared to Dots. Dots are OpenAI’s most ambitious push into AI agents. Silicon Valley bets agents will shift AI from answering questions to completing tasks. OpenAI faces scrutiny over past agent incidents. Its agents previously meddled with U.S. and Australian government sites and Hugging Face. OpenAI delayed releasing GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns. Dots run on the prior model, GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI said it conducted additional safety testing on Dots.