OpenAI officially launched AgentKit, a new developer toolkit to help build and deploy AI agents. The news was recently made by CEO Sam Altman on the floor of the company’s inaugural Dev Day event. OpenAI has built an amazing new toolkit that makes it easy to build some smart agents. This approach is intuitive and time-saving for developers.
AgentKit consists of two main components: Agent Builder and ChatKit. Altman has previously described Agent Builder as a “Canva for building agents.” He highlighted its visual-first, intuitive experience that will let developers rapidly and visually build, design, and structure the logic, steps, and concepts of their agents. This feature unlocks everything you need to easily create, deploy, and continuously improve agent workflows with much greater ease and agility.
OpenAI based AgentKit on its popular chat-style responses API. This API is already familiar to hundreds of thousands of developers. This new integration should make it much easier to transition current users over to the new interface. They should find it ever more convenient to supercharge their projects with revolutionary AI features. At the recent Dev Day community event, engineer Christina Huang demonstrated all the amazing things AgentKit can do. She constructed a complete AI workflow and set up two AI agents in less than eight minutes!
“This is all the stuff that we wished we had when we were trying to build our first agents.” – Sam Altman
Giving an indication of the flexibility of AgentKit, Altman continued. Toolkit users can easily adapt the resources to reflect their own brand, workflows, and distinctive product features. This flexibility allows developers to customize their AI solutions to better suit the unique needs and requirements of their users.
ChatKit, the second piece of AgentKit, provides a very basic embeddable chat interface. This new capability allows developers to embed chat experiences directly into their applications, creating more engaging and interactive experiences for users.
The introduction of AgentKit was just one of many announcements OpenAI has put forth at their inaugural Dev Day event. Now, you can even create applications directly inside ChatGPT. This new feature arrives just in time as the platform celebrates an incredible milestone of 800 million weekly active users!
OpenAI has collaborated with other developers and companies to further scale their AI agents with AgentKit. This joint effort is an early indicator of the excitement around and implementation of this new toolkit from the industry. As developers adopt these new innovations, the possibilities for innovation in AI applications is only beginning.