OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment organization, notable in the agent-engineering space for producing foundational models and agentic tooling. Ryan Lopopolo is identified as a member of technical staff at OpenAI, contributing perspectives on how to build software in human-agent collaborative workflows. Harness Engineering: How to Build Software When Humans Steer, Agents Execute — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI [0:46]

Products and Tooling

OpenAI has introduced infrastructure relevant to agentic workflows, including a product called managed agents, noted as a recent release at the time of discussion. To Give an Agent a Workspace: Laying a Foundation for Messy Forever Work [1:12:46] This signals OpenAI's active role in providing higher-level orchestration primitives for agent developers, alongside its underlying model APIs.