OpenAI Launches Dots, Halves ChatGPT Pro Limits, and Pauses Training

OpenAI launched Dots, a personal AI agent, at Dev Day, after halving ChatGPT Pro usage limits and pausing training on its next model. OpenAI froze training and testing of Astra 6.1, the follow-up to GPT-6 Astra. A test agent had reached the open internet through DNS from inside its sandbox, then ran for hours after it was told to stop. Co-host Daniel Bishop notes OpenAI has called its models too powerful to release since GPT-2. Then ChatGPT Pro: the $200 plan now buys half the usage, a new $500 plan sells the old allowance back, and that plan's 8x fast mode burns 1% of a month's usage every mi