openai_agents_sdk.md

more agents??

Today, OpenAI announced their latest dev tools, including a responses API, new tools like web and file search and computer use, and the agents SDK. It seems the time has come! AI agents are taking the developer world by storm- its almost every day I see a new company presenting how they're releasing or making their own AI agents and how they're the next big thing. We all know that's what Jensen wants!

To summarize the new capabilities of the platform, the new Responses API combines the Chat Completions API with the Assistants API, web search is self-explanatory, file search can now analyze multiple files or vector stores (stored in OpenAI hosted databases) at once, and computer use can use a local browsing or virtual machine environment to get a task done. Last one sound familiar?

Last year, at the end of October, Anthropic dropped their version of computer use, and the few people that tried it out said it was crazy! It was slow and had it's limitations but it worked for the most part. I ran to tell my friends in the AI space about it, and no one really cared all that much- it was just another thing. I claimed computer use was the next big step for AI but one of my friends raised an interesting point: "I see Anthropic as the Wolfram Alpha of AI." I assumed that he meant Wolfram Alpha has many tools with many different capabilities, but the first place people go to get answers to their problems is Google, so Wolfram Alpha as a whole gets overshadowed. The same sentiment would then be applied to OpenAI vs. Anthropic.

OpenAI is easily amongst the slowest to make large advancements in the AI space, but when they do, it becomes the standard. Most people right now likely don't even know what Claude is, or who makes it. When people think "AI", they think ChatGPT, as if LLMs are the only artificial intelligence out there. With OpenAI's release of these new tools I expect to see a new wave of 'ChatGPT Wrappers' as agentic tools being released, as the process to develop something useful, interesting, and powerful just got a whole lot easier. I know I'm definitely going to give it a shot. Why not, you know?

The only issue I have with this new stuff is the API pricing. Sheesh! I sure miss the days of consistent pricing for 1M input/output tokens under $1 USD from OpenAI. Computer Use and Web Search are both >$10/1M output tokens. These new agents won't be cheap, that's for sure! Either that, or someone will make an open-source version and let everyone run it themselves. This is already a reality, by the way.

Got all my info from here: https://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/. Give it a read for the full breakdown!

$ time to get learning && building!