OpenAI previously launched the Assistants API, but the speaker says it was not really the right fit.

“We're obviously like very low level like I used to work at Stripe before this and at Stripe a lot of the game was like building these higher level primitives and products on top of like the core payments primitives and I'm always like curious about what the best way of doing that is in AI and I think we've had a couple of attempts at that we like had launched assistance API like way back in the day and like wasn't really the right fit.”