Frontier AI labs are pivoting from consumer subscriptions to enterprise contracts and vertical services as paid consumer adoption stalls at 2.2%, with OpenAI’s enterprise bookings reportedly doubling since July and Instinct planning commissions on agent-driven purchases.
OpenAI launches Dots, an always-on AI agent for Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise users that uses GPT-6 Astra to absorb personal context, make proactive suggestions and complete multi-step tasks, while CEO Sam Altman says its compute demands keep it premium for now.
Meta launches Muse for Small Business, an AI agent that connects with tools such as QuickBooks, Shopify, Slack and Instagram to help owners manage operations and find customers, while requiring approval before it publishes, sends or spends.
Baseten partners with OpenAI to bring open models natively to Codex and the Responses API, allowing enterprise customers to use existing OpenAI commitments while routing workloads across more than 90 active-active clusters and giving coding agents isolated Blaxel sandboxes.
Meta launches Muse for Small Business, a free-with-limits AI agent that connects to Asana, Zoom, Slack, Canva, Intuit, Box and Meta ad accounts, while preparing a broader enterprise platform under former MongoDB CEO CJ Desai.
OpenAI launches Dots, always-on ChatGPT agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that run from cloud computers, connect to more than 4,000 apps, and can answer in Slack, Teams, and ChatGPT 24/7.
Meta launches its Enterprise Platform to sell Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API and Muse Code to companies, hiring MongoDB CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai to lead the push as MongoDB names Dev Ittycheria interim CEO and its shares drop more than 17%.
Meta launches its Enterprise Platform under former MongoDB CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai to sell deployable AI stacks built around Muse and Meta Business Agent, as Nvidia introduces a system designed to detect and contain rogue AI-agent behavior within milliseconds.
Meta launches its Enterprise Platform and hires former MongoDB CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai to lead it, bundling Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API and Muse Code after ending a human-concierge Muse test over sensitive-data concerns and a reported racist contractor remark.
Microsoft launches Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace, a unified partner program that helps eligible B2B solution providers build, publish, monetize and scale offerings, with its Premium tier providing $30,000 in Azure credits plus technical and go-to-market support.