OpenAI responds to Claude Cowork with its own platform to help build, deploy, and manage AI agents

"It said that its offering "gives agents the same skills people need to succeed at work: shared context, onboarding, hands-on learning with feedback and clear permissions and boundaries. That's how teams move beyond isolated use cases to AI coworkers that work across the business." Frontier works with existing systems, the announcement said, allowing customers to integrate their applications using open standards, which takes away the need to replatform."

"Jason Andersen, VP and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, said he is not surprised at the mainstream world's excitement about Anthropic and OpenAI entering the space, noting, "they have already shown themselves to be disruptors and are now positioning themselves more directly in the SaaS and enterprise productivity space." The problem, he said, is that many of the platforms that the AI pure plays are trying to disrupt have embedded similar agentic technologies"

OpenAI launched Frontier, a platform designed to give autonomous agents workplace skills such as shared context, onboarding, hands-on learning with feedback, and defined permissions and boundaries. Frontier integrates with existing systems via open standards so customers can connect applications without replatforming, and its AI coworkers are accessible through any interface. Multiple organizations are piloting or adopting Frontier, including Cisco, T‑Mobile, BBVA, HP, Intuit, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber. Anthropic released open-source plugins enabling Claude Cowork to automate processes in areas like customer support and IT operations, and analysts note many enterprise products already expose customers to similar agentic tools.

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