OpenAI Adds Connectors, Persistent Chats to Responses API

OpenAI has expanded its Responses API with two new capabilities aimed at making it easier for software developers to integrate the company’s large-language-model services into their products. A new “Connectors” feature lets applications pull context from external sources—including Gmail, Google Calendar and Dropbox—in a single API call, reducing the need for bespoke integrations. A separate “Conversations” function allows developers to store and retrieve persistent chat threads without maintaining their own databases, simplifying session management for end-users. The upgraded toolkit, detailed in OpenAI’s documentation on 21–22 Aug., is designed to support more complex workflows such as customer-support agents and research assistants, and works with the company’s higher-capacity models. Pricing was not disclosed.