OpenAI says Dots should reach more of Europe within weeks
Original title: OpenAI teases Dots for Europe, but its Berlin DevDay was really about building a platform
Personal Pro accounts in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK remain locked out, while some business accounts already have access.
At DevDay Exchange 2026 in Berlin, OpenAI largely repeated San Francisco announcements and added a few product details. Romain Huet said the Dots assistant should become more widely available in Europe in a few weeks after talks with regulators. OpenAI also said weekly active Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January 2026, without giving absolute numbers, and pitched Agents API, plugins and ChatGPT distribution as a platform for developers.
Unconfirmed: Codex growth and the 1.2 billion weekly-user figure are OpenAI's own claims, with no absolute Codex counts.
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At DevDay Exchange in Berlin, OpenAI mostly repeated what it had already announced, but it did share a few new details. The AI assistant Dots should roll out more widely in Europe "in a few weeks," and weekly Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January. A clear subtext ran through the sessions and the repeated nods to ChatGPT's 1.
By Maximilian Schreiner · the-decoder.com
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