OpenAI announces Frontier, an AI agent platform for enterprises to power apps like Salesforce and Workday—but could it eventually replace them?

OpenAI is making its most aggressive move into the corporate world yet with the launch of Frontier, an enterprise platform to build, deploy, and manage AI agents that can run other software, such as Salesforce and Workday.

Frontier appears to be OpenAI’s bid to become the “operating system of the enterprise,” offering a unified platform for building agents that can navigate apps, execute workflows, and make decisions. In a blog post announcing the new platform, OpenAI says that Frontier can connect databases...