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OpenAI calls its new A.I. agents dots, and anyone who types dot.com into a browser ends up with Elon Musk. The domain currently redirects straight to the page for Grok Bot, the agent product from Mr. Musk’s A.I. company SpaceXAI. Trending Topics verified this independently. OpenAI unveiled its dots only on Tuesday at DevDay in San Francisco. A post on X that first spotted the redirect drew more than three million views, according to AOL.
The move was not entirely spontaneous, however. According to Whois records, the dot.com domain was transferred to xAI back in July, months before OpenAI’s announcement, TechCrunch reports. Whether SpaceXAI knew the name of OpenAI’s agents or bought the domain for other reasons is unclear. According to TechCrunch, the company may simply want to catch typos from people looking for its Grok Bot. xAI does not own bot.com or vot.com, though. The company did not respond to a request for comment from TechCrunch, and OpenAI did not comment either.
The obvious address, dots.com, belongs to neither company but to a former fashion business. The dots name has caused confusion for OpenAI elsewhere, too: according to AOL, two Chinese companies already use it, and one has filed a U.S. trademark application for “DOTS” covering A.I. chatbot software.
The two products are similar. Grok Bot, which SpaceXAI unveiled in August, is marketed as an “A.I. teammate”: each bot gets its own computer in the cloud, signs into a team’s tools and works through tasks on its own. It is available only with expensive subscriptions such as SuperGrok Heavy or Cursor Ultra. OpenAI’s dots also run on their own cloud computer, can access more than 4,000 apps and, at launch, are included only in the Pro and Business Premium plans.
The jab is just the latest episode in a long conflict. In 2015, Mr. Musk was among the founders of OpenAI, then a nonprofit, alongside Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and he contributed tens of millions of dollars in its early years. He left the board in 2018. Officially, he cited a conflict of interest with Tesla’s A.I. work, but according to later court filings the dispute was about control: Mr. Musk wanted a majority stake in a for-profit OpenAI subsidiary or to fold OpenAI into Tesla, and the other founders refused.
The feud has escalated ever since:
It is no coincidence that the feud is now flaring up over A.I. agents. Agents that work autonomously in the background are seen as the industry’s next big business. Besides OpenAI and SpaceXAI, Meta is in the market with Muse, and Anthropic offers a similar product for office work with Claude Cowork. For OpenAI, dots are one of the most important launches of the year. Some of the headlines that followed now belong to Mr. Musk.
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