OpenAI Says Dots Will Reach More of Europe Within Weeks, and Pitches Itself as a Platform
At DevDay Exchange in Berlin, OpenAI hinted at a wider European rollout of Dots, shared Codex growth in Germany and laid out an app store style strategy.
If you live in Europe and have been waiting for OpenAI’s Dots, there is a date-shaped hint. At DevDay Exchange 2026 in Berlin, Romain Huet, OpenAI’s head of developer experience, said Dots should become more widely available in Europe “in a few weeks,” after talks with regulators, The Decoder reports. For now, personal Pro accounts in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK are still locked out, while certain business accounts can already get access. “A few weeks” is a spoken estimate, not a launch date.
Most of the Berlin event repeated what OpenAI had announced in San Francisco, but a few new details came out. Weekly active users of Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent, in Germany have grown twentyfold since January, according to OpenAI, though it again gave no absolute numbers. Nearly one in five desktop users apply “skills” (reusable instruction packs) to documents, presentations or spreadsheets, which suggests Codex is used for ordinary office work, not just programming. Asked why OpenAI has no model that understands video like Google’s Gemini does, management said customers barely ask for one. The panel also blamed “extreme resource demands” for shutting down Sora in March and did not rule out a return.
What’s behind it: the real story, in The Decoder’s reading, is platform building. OpenAI now offers an Agents API where it runs the agent infrastructure for you, plus plugins and web apps that developers can offer inside ChatGPT, which OpenAI says reaches 1.2 billion people weekly. That resembles a phone app store: you build the product, the platform supplies the machinery and the audience. It is convenient for developers, and it also makes leaving harder, because your app ends up tied to one company’s hosting and one company’s customers. The lock-in point is the author’s interpretation, not something OpenAI said. OpenAI notes that its Codex Harness stays open source.
An odd detail worth knowing: because AI agents run on their own virtual computers, more AI written code means more demand for ordinary processors, not just graphics chips. OpenAI reportedly has a team that reviews its own code weekly to trim that load.
What this means for you: for most people in Europe, nothing changes today. If you want Dots, watch your account’s region settings and OpenAI’s announcements rather than any single date. If you build products on top of AI, the practical advice is to keep your own code separate from any one platform’s special features, so you can move if prices or rules change.
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