OpenAI just launched Dots: persistent AI agents that keep working on their own, with their own computer, connected to your tools. The idea feels familiar — it is exactly what Delos has been building from the start. Here is an honest comparison, and why Delos remains the European alternative for teams that care about sovereignty.
Dots validates a conviction Delos has held since day one: the future of work is not a chatbot you re-prompt in a loop, but an autonomous colleague that acts, remembers and delivers. When the world leading AI lab adopts our thesis, it is the clearest sign we were on the right path. We simply started earlier — and we did it in Europe, with sovereignty and compliance built in from the beginning.
The most decisive difference: Dots runs exclusively on OpenAI models, while Delos is model-agnostic. Our workers draw on every major LLM — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Meta and the best open-source models — and pick the one best suited to each task. No single model is best at everything: by staying open, we deliver higher quality and avoid lock-in to a single vendor.
Sovereignty is not an afterthought. Delos answers with Europe: hosting on the continent, GDPR and AI Act compliance built in from the start, per-customer isolated environments, and no data ever used to train models. With an agent run from the United States, that guarantee depends on a foreign legal framework — a structural concern for any government body, bank, healthcare player or European company handling sensitive data.
Delos is not a bet: it is a platform deployed in production with large accounts, SMEs and institutions operating in regulated environments. Over 10,000 workers are already live, connected to 3,000+ tools. The vision Dots is popularizing today, Delos has been running in production for years — with sovereignty and model choice on top.
Both offer autonomous, persistent AI agents with their own computer. The difference: Delos is multi-LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Meta, open-source) and European-sovereign (hosting in Europe, GDPR & AI Act by design), while Dots is locked to OpenAI models and run from the United States.
Yes. Delos is the European alternative: hosting on the continent, built-in GDPR and AI Act compliance, per-customer isolated environments, and no data ever used to train models.
No. Delos is model-agnostic and draws on every major LLM — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Meta and the best open-source models — choosing the one best suited to each task.
Yes. Over 10,000 workers are already in production with large accounts, SMEs and institutions operating in regulated environments, connected to 3,000+ tools.