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OpenAI Launches Frontier for Building and Operating AI Coworkers

OpenAI introduced Frontier as a platform for deploying AI coworkers across local, cloud and OpenAI-hosted environments.

OpenAI introduced Frontier, a platform aimed at helping organizations build, deploy and operate AI coworkers. The company said those systems could run across local environments, enterprise cloud infrastructure and OpenAI-hosted runtimes.

The framing was notable: the sales unit was no longer just a model or API call, but a worker-like system with context, permissions and operational boundaries. That raises the bar for adoption, because model performance must be paired with identity, observability and workflow ownership.

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