OpenAI launches centralized agent platform as enterprises push for multi-vendor flexibility

OpenAI launched Frontier, a platform for building and governing enterprise AI agents, as companies increasingly question whether to commit to single-vendor systems or maintain multi-model flexibility.The platform offers integrated tools for agent execution, evaluation, and governance in one place. But Frontier also reflects OpenAI's push into enterprise AI at a moment when organizations are actively moving toward multi-vendor architectures — creating tension between OpenAI's centralized approach and what enterprises say they want.Tatyana Mamut, CEO of the agent observability company Wayfound, told VentureBeat that enterprises don’t want to be locked into a single vendor or platform because AI strategies are ever-evolving. “They’re not ready to fully commit. Everybody I talk to knows that e