OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents for Enterprise — Codex-Powered, Always-On Bots Replace Custom GPTs in Slack, Salesforce, Google Drive
OpenAI has quietly retired the Custom GPTs era. Workspace Agents — launched April 22 as a research preview — are the replacement: Codex-powered, cloud-resident, always-on autonomous bots that persist across sessions and connect to 60+ enterprise tools out of the box. This is a significant product shift. Custom GPTs were stateless, session-bound, and largely limited to retrieval and generation. Workspace Agents can take action, handle multi-step tasks autonomously, and integrate with the tools your teams already live in. ...