According to Greg Brockman on Twitter, the introduction of connectors and persistent conversations in the Responses API enables businesses to seamlessly integrate diverse data sources and maintain contextual, ongoing dialogues with users (source: Greg Brockman, Twitter). This development significantly improves AI-powered customer support and workflow automation by allowing persistent state management and multi-platform interaction. Companies leveraging the Responses API can now create more robust conversational AI applications, leading to enhanced customer engagement, operational efficiency, and new AI-driven business opportunities.