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**OpenAI Releases Tools For App Developers Building ‘Agents’**

By Stephanie Palazzolo

Source: The Information

OpenAI on Tuesday released a set of new application programming interfaces and tools to help developers build agents, software that can take actions on behalf of customers, according to a company blog post.

These include tools to help developers make agents that can search the web and cite websites, search company files, and use a customer's web browser to do data entry or test out web apps for bugs. The tools also help developers monitor and troubleshoot those agents.

These tools will allow developers to build apps similar to Manus, a new computer-using agent that gained notoriety after showing it can complete tasks such as browsing multiple websites to analyze stocks or look for properties to buy.

Numerous other enterprise software firms such as Microsoft and Salesforce are also selling tools for customers to automate customer service and other tasks that require more than one action.