Computerworld.com reported that “The AI agent introduction frenzy continued at a torrid pace this week, with OpenAI launching what it called workspace agents in ChatGPT and Microsoft adding hosted agents to its Foundry Agent Service.” The April 23, 2026 article entitled ” The agentic AI frenzy increases as more vendors stake their claims” (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4162908/the-agentic-ai-frenzy-increases-as-more-vendors-stake-their-claims-2.html) included these comments:
Both launched on the same day that Google both updated its Gemini Enterprise app to provide new ways for office workers to build, manage, and interact with AI agents, and launched the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, which the company said is designed to build, scale, govern, and optimize agents.
This trio of offerings follows Anthropic’s early April introduction of Claude Managed Agents, a suite of composable APIs for building and hosting cloud-hosted agents, which is now in public beta.
In its announcement, OpenAI said, “workspace agents are an evolution of GPTs. Powered by Codex, they can take on many of the tasks people already do at work—from preparing reports, to writing code, to responding to messages. They run in the cloud, so they can keep working even when you’re not. They’re also designed to be shared within an organization, so teams can build an agent once, use it together in ChatGPT or Slack, and improve it over time.”
Microsoft, meanwhile, stated in a blog that its latest move “brings agent-optimized compute and services designed for production-grade enterprise agents.” After its preview of hosted agents last year at Microsoft Ignite, the company said, “this refresh is a fundamentally different experience: secure per-session sandboxes with filesystem persistence, integrated identity, and scale-to-zero economics.”
No surprise!