OpenAI has introduced Frontier, a new platform that enables companies to implement and manage AI agents as if they were new employees — including onboarding, permission assignments, and performance evaluation within the existing technology environment.
The platform integrates with CRMs, ticketing tools, and other enterprise systems, allowing agents to access information across the company without data migration. Built-in evaluation and feedback mechanisms enable agents to learn from experience, similar to how a new employee goes through reviews and learns company rules. Each agent has its own profile with limited access, ensuring control in regulated environments.
Early adopters include HP, Oracle, State Farm, and Uber, with OpenAI deploying engineers on-site to assist with agent deployment in production. Frontier demonstrates that the race for AI models is expanding into the enterprise layer, where a system managing “AI colleagues” becomes a valuable asset.
In Brief: Tech World Highlights
- Dell Chief Product Officer Kevin Terwilliger stated that consumers are not buying computers for AI, and the company plans to move away from AI-first marketing.
- Amazon faces criticism over its shopping AI agent “Buy for Me,” with merchants claiming their products were copied and posted without permission.
- OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 Pro solved three Erdos problems using Harmonic’s Aristotle, while mathematician Terence Tao and others achieved new results on unsolved proofs.
- Epoch AI released new data showing that global AI compute capacity doubles every seven months, with Nvidia chips accounting for over 60% of production since 2022.
- Justin Lin, director of Qwen at Alibaba, stated that Chinese AI companies have less than a 20% chance of surpassing frontier models in the next 3–5 years, citing differences in resources compared to U.S. competitors.
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