OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Berlin on September 25, 2025.
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OpenAI on Thursday announced a new enterprise platform called Frontier. This is the latest release as part of the company’s continued efforts to reach more enterprise customers.
Frontier acts as an intelligence layer that connects disparate systems and data within an organization. OpenAI said its platform will make it easier for companies to manage, deploy and build artificial intelligence agents – tools that can independently complete tasks on behalf of users.
“Frontier is really a recognition that we’re not going to build everything ourselves,” Fiji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, told reporters at a press conference. “We’re going to work with the ecosystem to build, and we accept the fact that companies are going to need many different partners.”
OpenAI has been aggressively moving into enterprises in recent years, announcing in November that more than 1 million enterprise customers around the world are using its technology.
Last month, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC that enterprise customers account for about 40% of OpenAI’s business, but she expects that number to reach nearly 50% by the end of the year.
OpenAI’s new Frontier platform is “complementary” to its existing business products, including ChatGPT Enterprise, the company said.
“What’s really missing for most companies is an easy way to unlock the power of agents as teammates who can operate within the business without having to reinvent everything at the core,” Dennis Dresser, chief revenue officer at OpenAI, said in a press conference. “That’s exactly why we built Frontier.”
OpenAI declined to share pricing details for the platform.
Frontier is compatible with agents built by OpenAI, agents built by companies in-house, and even third-party agents such as: google, microsoft And humanity. Simo said it is simply not possible for OpenAI to “build all the AI agents that enterprises need.”
OpenAI says the platform connects siled internal applications, ticketing tools, and data warehouses to give agents access to a “shared business context” within an organization.
According to the blog post, this context enables AI agents to handle complex tasks and reason about data within an open agent execution environment. This means that a company’s employees can have agents use tools on their computers, run code, or manipulate files.
OpenAI says Frontier also has built-in tools to evaluate and optimize agent performance, which should help improve performance over time.
“What we’re basically doing is turning agents into true AI colleagues,” Barrett Zoff, general manager of B2B at OpenAI, told reporters.
Zoph rejoined OpenAI in January after abruptly leaving Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup he co-founded with Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO.
OpenAI said Frontier will initially launch with a small number of customers. Initial users include organizations such as: UberState Farm; intuition and thermo fisher. The company said it will become more widely available in the coming months.
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