AI is getting an expense account. That, at least, is the impression left by a week of persistent agents, enterprise ambitions, spatial intelligence, and billion-dollar funding rounds. The industry increasingly wants permission to enter our workflows, operate our software, and complete the tasks we keep postponing. Intelligence is becoming a job application. OpenAI's DevDay made that ambition concrete. Dots are persistent agents designed to pursue goals between conversations, while ChatGPT Space gives people and AI a shared workspace. GPT-6.1 Sol brings what OpenAI describes as near-Astra performance at lower cost, and Astra Ultrafast accelerates token generation. Together, these releases address the economics and logistics of delegation. An agent that works repeatedly needs affordable inference, persistent context, useful tools, and somewhere to deliver results. OpenAI is assembling that machinery around the model. The chatbot is acquiring an office. Google supplied another...
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