Recently, OpenAI released a series of new tools on its official website, aiming to help developers simplify the development process of AI agents and enhance their capabilities. This move marks an important step towards OpenAI's API platform being more practical and closer to practical applications. The newly released tools will greatly improve the application capabilities of AI agents in the real world.
First, OpenAI's Responses API combines chat capabilities with a variety of integrated tools, including web search and file search. This new API is based on ChatGPT's search model, which can provide real-time information and accompany citation sources, providing developers with a more flexible development foundation. It is worth noting that OpenAI plans to phase out the old Assistants API in 2026 and turn to the Responses API in full, which will make the interactive experience of AI more diverse.
Second, OpenAI also released the Agents SDK, an open source framework for coordinating complex workflows between multiple agents. The SDK originated from OpenAI's experimental project Swarm, and has intelligent body handover, safety guardrails and comprehensive debugging and tracking functions. This means that developers can more efficiently retrieve information from large amounts of documents, use the newly added metadata filtering and direct search endpoint access functions, greatly improving work efficiency.
Finally, OpenAI also launched the Computer Use Tool, which enables AI to perform tasks directly on the computer through the Operator function. The introduction of this feature marks that AI agents are not limited to answering questions, but can actually perform tasks in the real world. Kevin Weil, product leader at OpenAI, pointed out at the press conference: "2025 will be the first year of AI agents, and this year, ChatGPT and our developer tools will achieve a fundamental transformation from answering questions to executing tasks."
OpenAI's new tools not only provide strong support for developers, but also lay the foundation for the application of AI agents in the future, and are expected to play an important role in future technological development.