Releasesby IbisOpenAI-hosted sandboxes in the Agents API now include the Artifact SDK and skills for creating and editing
Update8 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 21, 2026
OpenAI-hosted sandboxes in the Agents API now include the Artifact SDK and skills for creating and editing spreadsheets, presentations, and Word documents. Added Ultrafast mode to the Agents API. Set agent.service_tier to ultrafast with a supported model to reduce the time between generated tokens.
Topics: AI agents, Developer tools
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Added native Decisions integration in GPT-Live
Added native Decisions integration in GPT-Live. Your app can act while your user is speaking or react to what Live says. Let Live call Decisions directly through native delegation, or trigger decisions as input or output transcript deltas arrive.
You can now choose 12-hour prompt caching in the API
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Build more responsive apps with the Decisions API
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Added Ultrafast mode for GPT-6.1 Sol in the Responses API
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Updated the chat-latest snapshot, which points to the latest model available in ChatGPT for Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users. We recommend leveraging the GPT-6 model family for production API usage, but feel free to use this model to test the latest improvements for chat use cases. The underlying model snapshot will be regularly updated.
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