In a week marked by significant price declines in the AI sector amid market volatility, an trench-bound AI project may have connections to OpenAI.

Nearly all of the top AI tokens are trending downward—sometimes dramatically, as seen with AI16z, which plummeted from a peak of $2.42 to just 30 cents.

In the midst of the downturn, Swept has gone to the trenches to find new developments, such as AES-Operator $AESOP. Despite a small market cap hovering around $7 million, Aesop is combining complex and expensive features to its platform.

The Aesop GitHub states that it features a real-time desk environment and connected interface, the Anthopic Claude API, social media monitoring, and automated crypto trading on Solana.

Although it’s unclear, the project may be leveraging OpenAI’s Operator, a research tool that uses its own browser to read webpages, to support a large portion of its functionality. If it’s not OpanAI’s tool, then the team behind Aesop may be building this themselves with the help of their two NVIDIA H100 chips teased on their X account.

With the inclusion of an intuitive UI, Aesop’s stated feature set could allow AI agents to perform complex, multi-step research tasks for crypto traders by scraping, caching, and synthesizing real-time data from various sources, to execute on-chain trades.

Swept will keep an eye on this project to confirm the team’s status and connections to OpenAI and what the project ships.