What OpenAI announced at DevDay 2026, and what people made of it.

BREAKING:

@OpenAI just launched Space, an agent-native office suite.

It's a Google Drive–like place inside ChatGPT where you, your Dots, and your team can organize and work on files together. OpenAI is also introducing native apps for documents, spreadsheets, and slides that you can use inside ChatGPT and with Space.

The obvious win is that you stop switching windows between ChatGPT and another app like Notion while you write. The less obvious one is speed. When a Dot builds a document through its browser in Google Docs, the edits practically crawl in, because Docs wasn't built for agents. Native documents don't have that lag. You can tag your Dot inside the document itself instead of going back to the chat to tell it to check the file.

I’ve long expected the company to do this—in 2024 I wrote about the potential for documents, slides, and sheets inside ChatGPT—and I’m glad the product is finally here. I’m already doing most of my work in ChatGPT’s in-app browser, and this makes that process smoother: I can tag my Dot in a comment on a document and get a revision inline as I’m working. The back-and-forth feels more like collaboration.

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BREAKING:

@OpenAI just announced Dots—always-on agents in ChatGPT

I've been testing it for the last few days @every, here's a quick vibe check:

What you should know:
- They'll look familiar if you've used OpenClaw, Muse, Instinct, or Grok Bots.
- Your Dot sits in the redesigned ChatGPT sidebar right below the “New chat” button
- It has its own cloud computer that lets it work while your laptop is closed. You can text it any time or call it on the phone.

Vibe check—the good
When it’s working, it changes the way I use ChatGPT: I interact with Boo (my Dot’s name), and Boo orchestrates ChatGPT threads, reads my email, uses Slack, and more. It automatically filters incoming Slack requests and emails so I can quickly triage items without opening my inbox. When I was rescheduling a flight, Boo warned me that my new flight time would conflict with a meeting request from Slack that I hadn’t read.

That’s the promise: an ongoing agent that filters what needs my attention and acts proactively on my behalf, in one long-running chat thread.

Vibe check—the bad
But the version I tested over the last few days was buggy and lacked some features I would expect, like iMessage support.

I had frequent issues with permissions and dropped messages, and my Dot was unable to connect to its own in-app browser.

The verdict
During testing, I found myself reaching for my Dot over starting new Codex threads, so it has definitely become a habit despite the frustration. And during the tesitng period the team was rapidly fixing issues—so I'd expect most of this to be smoothed out over the coming days and weeks.

Unless you love new things with rough edges, I’d recommend waiting a week or two to try it. OpenAI will have solved a lot of these paper cuts by then.

If you’re already deep into Grok Bots, Muse, or Instinct, it’s probably not an immediate switch unless you’re also a big ChatGPT or Codex user.

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