IBL News | New York
OpenAI released yesterday new tools designed to help developers build custom AI agents that can perform web searches, scan through company files, and navigate websites, similar to Operator.
The tools are part of OpenAI’s new Responses API, which effectively replaces its Assistants API.
This launch occurs amid the agent hype phenomenon, with a new agent platform called Manus developed by a Chinese startup called Butterfly Effect.
Earlier this year, OpenAI introduced two AI agents in ChatGPT: Operator, which navigates websites on your behalf, and Deep Research, which compiles research reports. Both tools offered a glimpse at what agentic technology can achieve.
The Responses API also includes a file search utility that can quickly scan across files in a company’s databases to retrieve information. In addition, the model generates mouse and keyboard actions, allowing developers to automate computer use tasks like data entry and app workflows.
Alongside the Responses API, OpenAI is releasing an open-source toolkit called the Agents SDK. This toolkit offers developers free tools to integrate models with their internal systems, implement safeguards, and monitor AI agent activities for debugging and optimization purposes. The Agents SDK is a follow-up to OpenAI’s Swarm, a framework for multi-agent orchestration that the company released late last year.
- The new Responses API, combining the simplicity of the Chat Completions API with the tool use capabilities of the Assistants API for building agents
- Built-in tools, including web search, file search, and computer use
- The new Agents SDK to orchestrate single-agent and multi-agent workflows
- Integrated observability tools to trace and inspect agent workflow execution
