OpenAI launches Workspace Agents: As the enterprise AI war escalates, how will Feishu Dingding respond in China?
OpenAI officially launched Workspace Agents in ChatGPT, driven by Codex, which supports automatic execution of complex tasks, continuous cloud operation, and team sharing and collaboration. This move directly cuts into the core of enterprise workflow, forming head-on competition with domestic Feishu Aily, DingTalk Wukong, and Tencent WorkBuddy. This article sorts out the differences in product capabilities and domestic response strategies.
Core conclusion
On April 24, 2026, OpenAI officially launched Workspace Agents (workspace agents) in ChatGPT, which are driven by Codex and support teams in ChatGPT to create AI Agents that can autonomously execute complex workflows. This is not only a product upgrade, but also marks OpenAI’s official launch of an attack from personal AI tools to the core position of enterprise workflow.
Key Points
- Time of incident: 2026-04-24 -Affected objects: All content teams, operations, and developers who use AI to automate workflows
- Core changes: GPTs will be removed from the shelves and replaced by Workspace Agents; enterprise AI will move from personal assistants to team collaboration stage
- Domestic counterpart: Tencent WorkBuddy, Feishu Aily, and DingTalk Wukong have been released one after another around March, forming a three-party competition pattern
Background and trigger events
On April 24, OpenAI issued an announcement to officially launch Workspace Agents in ChatGPT. This feature is based on OpenAI’s previous Codex technology, allowing teams to describe workflows through natural language in the ChatGPT sidebar, with AI autonomously building and executing complex multi-step tasks.
Different from the chatbot positioning of GPTs in the past, Workspace Agents are real AI employees - they can run continuously in the cloud, trigger tasks on a schedule, connect to collaboration tools such as Slack, and support team sharing and management permissions. OpenAI officially stated that after Workspace Agents is launched, the original GPTs column will be removed from the shelves.
Key Impact (by Dimension)
| Dimensions | Change | What it means to us | Recommended actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product form | GPTs -> Workspace Agents | Upgrade from personal customized assistant to team collaborator | Re-evaluate existing GPTs workflow migration plan |
| Pricing | Business $20/ months per user, free before May 6th | The threshold is lowered, small and medium-sized enterprises can quickly test the water | It is recommended that the team experience it immediately, and hurry up to test during the free period |
| Availability | ChatGPT Business/Enterprise/Edu | Domestic users need to solve access problems | Focus on domestic alternatives (WorkBuddy/Aily/Wukong) |
| Competitive product landscape | Tencent/Feishu/DingTalk have laid out the domestic Agent market | The domestic enterprise AI market faces direct competition from OpenAI | Assess the maturity of domestic products and give priority to those with deep ecological integration |
Adaptation suggestions
Action Checklist for Content and Operations Teams
- Assess Now: Comb through your team’s existing GPTs and manual workflows to identify which ones can be migrated to Workspace Agents
- Focus on domestic alternatives: If the team relies on Feishu, DingTalk, and the enterprise WeChat ecosystem, give priority to understanding the agent capabilities of Feishu Aily and DingTalk Wukong - their ecological integration is higher
- Price Window: ChatGPT Business pays $20/ months/person annually, free to use before May 6
- Security Governance: OpenAI has added fine-grained permission control. What operations the agent can perform, what data it accesses, and which steps require approval have all been configured individually.
Action List
- Sign up for ChatGPT Business trial Workspace Agents
- Comparison of Feishu Aily MCP access vs. OpenAI native Agent capabilities
- Select 1-2 frequently recurring workflows as pilots within the team
Example: How to create a Workspace Agent using natural language
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Domestic competing products: a defensive war that starts in advance
Long before OpenAI released Workspace Agents, the three major domestic enterprise service platforms had completed the preliminary layout of Agent products:
Tencent WorkBuddy (released on March 9) is an AI-native desktop smart workbench that can be downloaded and used without complicated configuration. It has 20+ built-in skill packages, supports multi-window and multi-Agent parallelization, and connects the four platforms of Enterprise WeChat, QQ, Feishu, and DingTalk. When users are commuting outside, they can send voice messages on their mobile phones, and the office computer can automatically start working.
Feishu Aily connects the Agent to the enterprise's existing knowledge system and business system through the MCP protocol. Cloud documents, knowledge bases, multi-dimensional tables, and meeting minutes in Feishu can directly become knowledge input for the Agent. External systems such as CRM and ERP can also be read and written by the Agent through MCP. Aily also launched a task mode, which is equipped with an independent virtual running environment and supports multi-step disassembly and timed triggering of complex tasks.
DingTalk Wukong (released on March 17) is more radical - DingTalk CEO Chen Hang bluntly said that we will smash DingTalk into pieces and rebuild it with AI. Wukong can directly help the team send notifications, account for calendars, and approve processes, and naturally inherits organizational permissions and approval links. The Alibaba ecosystem's Taobao, Tmall, 1688, Alipay, and Alibaba Cloud B-side capabilities are also being gradually accessed in the form of Skills.
Tool entry
In this wave of enterprise AI agents, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex are still one of the most powerful model engines in the world. For domestic teams, if they have intensively used Feishu, DingTalk, and Enterprise WeChat, the ecological integration of domestic products is much higher than that of OpenAI. Automation tools such as n8n and LangGraph are also worthy of attention, as they can serve as the middle layer for cross-platform workflow orchestration. For individual developers and independent creators, the Agent capabilities of Claude and Gemini cannot be ignored.
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