Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

mhitza

This is the LLM integration approach I was pitching last year to some companies. Though in my case it was strictly tied to self-hosted inference. Agents at the edge of business where they can work independently, asynchronously, is an approach that I don't feel was explored enough in business environments. Sending your entire communication and documents to OpenAI would be a very bold choice.

jryio

Notion did it first and arguably better[1]. Shared agents benefit from shared context. The hardest part is ensuring that shared context is maintained and it converges on a representation of reality and the people in the company. [1] https://www.notion.com/help/custom-agents

pzo

I think I enjoyed OpenAI releases like ~1 year ago when they did video and presentation. This days with so many mini feature / releases is hard to be up to date or even figure out some use cases.

Jayakumark

Looks like ChatGPTs answer to claude managed agents, but using existing ChatGPT Business subscription and not API Keys. With one Caveat , it needs to be invoked from ChatGPT or Slack does not support invoking from APIs, so cannot embed it. Also google launched agent cli today to build own one and integrate with Gemini enterprise https://developers.googleblog.com/agents-cli-in-agent-platfo...

anthuswilliams

Without commenting on the product itself (I haven't tried it), the marketing copy around this release commits the same sins I have seen from Anthropic and Grok and all the rest of them. I'm so tired of seeing these companies trivializing other people's work! Nobody's job is "edit files" and "respond to messages"! People have jobs like "find and close leads" and "reconcile accounts" and "arrange student field trips" and "make sure the hospital has enough inventory", not "generate reports" and "write code". Editing files, producing reports, even writing code is just a byproduct. This is like the idiotic "lines of code produced" metric, but now they apply it to all of society.

TIPSIO

Beautiful design and UX for the bot layouts. Kudos this is really clean

m4rkuskk

OpenAI and Anthropic are killing startups and mature companies left and right. They will always have the cost advantage.

dennisy

I feel for the startups sweating each one of these frontier lab releases. How many more are thinking “am I next?”

neosat

Tried it to automate something that was on my to do list for the day. I had blocked off a few hours for this and managed to get the agent working reasonably well (85%) of the way there in < 15 mins. The main remaining part is the poor docx / pdf / final output but will create a skill/workflow to get around that. Worked really well end-end!

brianjking

So this only works for Team/Enterprise accounts? No Pro?

nazca

Is this an RIP Zapier feature?

hereme888

I just want a guarantee that OpenAI isn't just going to steal my ideas as I design my own agents. And if they did, I want compensation. I think of my custom skills, MCP servers, agents, etc, as intellectual property.

throwaway2016a

What am I missing? I don't see it in either the MacOS app or the web app. I have a "Plus" plan. Do I need "Business" or "Pro"? Edit: To answer my own question "Workspace agents are available in research preview in ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans."

zenapollo

I’m helping a client move data from dozens of spreadsheet to an aggregate one. The elegantish solution is to use Python, each run takes about 5s and 1 cal of energy. If i hadn’t helped her write the script, she as a non techie could have started with something like this tool, and it’ll take 90s and use 200 cal of energy. The numbers are fudged a bit, but still, how can this be profitable, or ethical? To say nothing of the spontaneous hallucination that sneaks in from time to time, especially when the model gets silently lobotomized.

eieke

More speculative stuff in the desperate search for revenue. Zzz this is boring. So much for scaling up compute and data = intelligence.

skybrian

From the announcement, I'm getting only a vague idea about what this is. It sounds like this Agent might run in some kind of sandbox with access to files? It would be nice if there were some documentation for the environment it runs in and what tools it has.

faxuss

So this only works for Team/Enterprise accounts? No Pro?

therobots927

“Altman anticipates that by 2027, AGI will have materialised.” - Feb 17 2025: https://yourstory.com/2025/02/sam-altmans-2035-ai-prediction So we’ve got about a year and a half max until we have AGI and OpenAI is launching a bunch of in house harnesses. They must have some crazy shit cooking in the back rooms. So super duper top secret they can’t even announce it. Because if their public models are any hint, you would never think we were 18 months away from human level machine intelligence.