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February 5, 2026
Introducing OpenAI Frontier
AI has let teams take on things they used to talk about but never execute. In fact, 75% of enterprise workers say AI helped them do tasks they couldn’t do before. We’re hearing this from every department, not just technical teams. The way work gets done has changed, and enterprises are starting to feel it in big ways.
TL;DR
- 75% of enterprise workers state AI has enabled them to perform tasks they couldn't do before.
- AI agents have led to significant improvements, such as reducing production optimization time from six weeks to one day at a major manufacturer.
- A global investment company saw over 90% more time for salespeople to interact with customers by deploying AI agents across the sales process.
- A large energy producer increased output by up to 5%, generating over a billion in additional revenue through AI agents.
- Frontier is a new platform from OpenAI to help enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents.
- Frontier provides AI agents with shared context, onboarding, learning with feedback, and defined permissions.
- Companies like HP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber are early adopters of Frontier.
- The AI opportunity gap stems from fragmented systems and the difficulty in moving AI agents beyond initial pilots into production.
- Frontier integrates with existing enterprise systems using open standards, avoiding the need for replatforming.
- AI coworkers on Frontier can access business context, reason over data, execute complex tasks, and learn from experience.
- Frontier includes features for evaluation and optimization to improve AI agent performance over time.
- The platform ensures AI agents operate within defined identities, permissions, and boundaries for secure and controlled use.
- OpenAI offers Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to assist enterprises in building and running agents in production.
- Frontier's open standards allow AI-native builders to create agents that benefit from shared business context.
- Frontier is currently available to a limited set of customers, with broader availability planned.
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