OpenAI's Frontier wants to manage your AI agents - it could upend enterprise software, too

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• OpenAI's Frontier emulates Palantir's use of forward-deployed AI engineers.
• Frontier promises to also handle agent security features.
• Like Claude Cowork, Frontier threatens the traditional software industry.

OpenAI, which to date has made most of its money from consumer users of ChatGPT, on Thursday took a page from Palantir's playbook, aiming to move deeper into enterprise sales. Palantir is arguably the most successful enterprise AI software company, with revenue of more than $4 billion annually from government and business clients.

OpenAI unveiled Frontier, a framework for deploying enterprise artificial intelligence agents; the company said the offering will help companies overcome impediments to deploying agents within organizations.

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