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Public story · 2026-02-25 · source-backed
OpenAI's Frontier platform enables building, deploying, and managing AI agents that run other software (Salesforce, Workday, etc.). "Business Context" gives agents institutional memory. Multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, McKinsey. Key insight: Frontier positions agent platforms as a new layer above existing SaaS — agents orchestrate tools rather than replacing them. The opportunity is building agents and workflows on top, not building the platform. (OpenAI)
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OpenAI spent $4 billion launching a subsidiary that puts engineers inside your company. ServiceNow and Accenture announced the same model. Unframe hit $100M in total contract value in 12 months doing it. Three independent signals. Same conclusion. The OpenAI Deployment Company...
AgentKit's Agent Builder and Evals come off the platform November 30, 2026, replaced by OpenAI Frontier for building, deploying, and governing agents with shared context and permissions (customers include HP, Oracle, State Farm, Uber) (OpenAI). OpenAI says Frontier doesn't rep...
The largest AI infrastructure deal in history: Amazon invests $50B in OpenAI ($15B initial + $35B conditional) to make AWS the exclusive third-party cloud for OpenAI Frontier — a platform for deploying teams of AI agents with shared context, built-in governance, and enterprise...
Presence is positioned as production-grade agent deployment for customer-facing and internal workflows, putting OpenAI directly against Sierra, Decagon, and the agent layers Salesforce and ServiceNow ship. The frontier labs want the application layer, not just the tokens under...
Bloomberg reported this morning that Microsoft has begun swapping OpenAI and Anthropic models for its own MAI models inside Excel and Outlook, with tens of thousands of prompts a week now running on MAI. Source. Read that number carefully. Tens of thousands of prompts a week i...
43. Salesforce — Q4 earnings 44. CNBC — Workday earnings 45. Databricks — Agentic dashboard authoring 46. Y Combinator — Spring 2026 RFS 47. OpenAI — Frontier platform ---
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