IBL News | New York
OpenAI launched a new platform this month called Frontier, a kind of AI for HR interface designed to help businesses build, deploy, and manage all agents, even those not made by OpenAI itself.
Currently, this agent framework is available to a limited number of customers, including Intuit, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber, with dozens of other companies having piloted it as well. Broader availability is expected in the coming months. Its use pricing has not been disclosed at this point in time.
“The product was inspired by looking at how enterprises already scale people,” said OpenAI.
OpenAI Frontier provides agents with the same skills as people in the workforce: shared context, onboarding, hands-on learning with feedback, and clear permissions and boundaries.
These agents are connected to other tools and resources needed to work and communicate effectively, enabling them to operate across different environments.
Organizations will be able to “hire AI coworkers” for tasks such as running code and performing data analysis.
“By the end of the year, most digital work in leading enterprises will be directed by people and executed by fleets of agents,” said Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications.
Experts see OpenAI’s platform as a direct response to Anthropic’s Claude Code / Claude Cowork, and Microsoft’s Agent 365 agent manager.
Frontier comes as AI companies expect to handle AI agentic tools that create revenue streams and are genuinely useful for their customers, as an enormous amount of money has been pumped into the industry.