JAKARTA OpenAI launched a new tool for developers on Tuesday 11 March to help them build advanced AI agents using several application programming interfaces (APIs). This move comes amid increasingly fierce competition with AI startups from China.

AI agents are designed to execute complex tasks in the real world independently without human intervention. While API is a series of codes that allow standard communication, data exchange, and functionality between software components.

OpenAI's new tool, named Responses API, is now available to all developers free of charge. The FIRE will replace Assistants API, which is scheduled to be discontinued in the second half of 2026.

The launch came after a number of Chinese AI startups released their latest model which is claimed to be equivalent or even better than the flagship AI model in the United States, but at lower costs.

China's AI startup, Monica, attracted attention after launching an autonomous AI agent named Manus, just weeks after DeepSek received praise from Silicon Valley executives and US technology company engineers.

On Tuesday, Monica announced a collaboration with the team behind Alibaba's AI Qwen model. The company also claims that Manus AI is superior to DeepResearch, OpenAI's AI agent


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