9/10/2026
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OpenAI's new data agent skips the one thing rivals like Databricks are racing to publish: a benchmark

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OpenAI's new data agent skips the one thing rivals like Databricks are racing to publish: a benchmark
OpenAI's own employees couldn't get fast answers to basic data questions β€” a gap that persisted until the company built a fix for itself first, then decided to sell it.That's the story behind the Data agent OpenAI is launching Thursday inside ChatGPT Work, OpenAI's competitor to Anthropic's Cowork, which launched in July. The Data agent connects to enterprise data sources, investigates what changed and turns the findings into dashboards, recommendations and follow-up actions it can execute throu
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