AI First Pod

OpenAI DevDay: Always-On Agents and the Model That Makes Them Affordable

Published: October 5, 2026

Duration: 6:12

OpenAI held DevDay today with a coherent product bet: Dots for always-on agents running in ChatGPT, Slack, and Teams across four thousand apps, and GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth the cost of Astra to make long-running agents economically viable. Also: the safety lead who just quit published a resignation essay in The Atlantic arguing trial-and-error safety is structurally broken for the capability level we've already reached — and an unconfirmed leak of a ten-trillion-parameter model called Bel.