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Agents2026-06-28 · source-backed
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 replace the Agents SDK or remaining APIs. If you built on Agent Builder, you need a migration plan now, not in November. This is the second time in a year I've watched OpenAI deprecate an agent-building surface, so factor platform churn into anything you build on their tooling.
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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 a...
The Evals Platform, Agent Builder, and Reusable Prompts (v1/prompts) all share a November 30, 2026 shutdown, with Evals hitting read-only a month earlier (TheRouter.ai). This follows OpenAI's March 10 acquisition of Promptfoo (300K+ developers, 127 Fortune 500 companies), and...
Drag-and-drop agent composition with guardrails, built on Agents SDK. HP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Uber as early adopters. Bridges the gap between developer SDK and enterprise teams needing governed visual orchestration. Source
- Source: TechCrunch - Category: deployment - Date: 2026-02-05 Enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing agent fleets. Business Context (CRM, data warehouses), Agent Execution (parallel multi-agent), built-in eval loops. Early customers: HP, Intuit, Oracle, Sta...
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...
OpenAI equipped the Responses API with environments where agents run services, query APIs, and produce artifacts within a single call. The phase parameter labels messages as intermediate vs. final. The Assistants API is deprecated and shuts down August 26, 2026 — migration to...
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