“I don’t use Astra every day”: OpenAI developer lead tells TNS why

At its 2026 DevDay in San Francisco, OpenAI unveiled more than 20 major updates across its products and APIs. Key announcements included GPT-6.1 Sol and an Ultrafast tier for GPT-6 Astra, along with OpenAI Dots—persistent agents that operate continuously in the background, connecting to over 4,000 apps through OpenAI's plugin ecosystem. The company also released the Decisions API for input classification and routing, plus computer use capabilities in the Agents API. OpenAI developer lead Vaibhav Srivastav discussed practical considerations including cost, speed, and safety of these new tools.

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