Today, OpenAI announced Frontier, a new platform for enterprises to build, deploy, and manage AI agents within their organizations. Similar to people, the AI agents created using Frontier will have shared context, onboarding, hands-on learning with feedback, and clear permissions and boundaries.
OpenAI highlighted that several leading technology companies, including HP, Intuit, Oracle, and Uber, have already adopted the new Frontier platform through an early access program.
The OpenAI Frontier platform includes three main components:
- Shared business context layer Frontier connects to enterprise systems (such as data warehouses, CRMs, ticketing tools, and internal apps) to provide shared “business context” for agents. OpenAI describes this as a semantic layer for the enterprise that agents can reference to operate and communicate consistently.
- Agent execution environment (plan/act/do work) Frontier gives agents the ability to use a computer and tools to complete tasks—including working with files, running code, and using tools—within an “open agent execution environment.” Agents can build memories from past interactions to improve future performance. Deployed agents can run across local environments, enterprise cloud infrastructure, and OpenAI-hosted runtimes. For time-sensitive work, Frontier prioritizes low-latency access to OpenAI models.
- Evaluation + optimization Frontier includes built-in evaluation and optimization so humans and agents can see what’s working and ensure behavior improves over time.
OpenAI Frontier also ensures each agent gets its own identity with explicit permissions and guardrails. Enterprise security and governance are built-in for scaling control. The main highlight is that Frontier agents are designed to work across existing enterprise systems, including multi-cloud setups. Enterprises can bring existing data from wherever it is located and avoid creating “new formats” specifically for agents.
The created agents can be used via multiple interfaces, including ChatGPT, workflows with Atlas, or inside existing business applications. The Frontier platform also supports third-party agents and an enterprise"s other existing agents.
Finally, OpenAI will also assign OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) with enterprise teams to help them build and run these Frontier agents in production.