OpenAI says its Dots assistant will reach more of Europe soon

OpenAI says its AI assistant Dots should become more widely available in Europe "in a few weeks." The comment came at DevDay Exchange 2026 in Berlin, a developer event. Most of what OpenAI showed there had already been announced in San Francisco, but a few new details came out.

What changed

Romain Huet, OpenAI's head of developer experience, said the wider rollout follows talks with regulators. For now, Personal Pro accounts in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK are still locked out. Certain business accounts can already get access.

OpenAI also said weekly Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January 2026. Codex is the company's coding tool. In June, The Decoder reported a more than sevenfold increase. OpenAI again gave no absolute numbers, so it is unclear how large the user base is.

Other details from the event

• Nearly one in five desktop users uses skills for documents, presentations or spreadsheets, so they use the coding tool for office work.
• OpenAI has not prioritized video understanding beyond single-frame analysis, saying customers barely asked for it.
• The Sora video generator was shut down in March, which OpenAI blamed on extreme resource demands. It did not rule out a return.

The bigger picture

The event also showed how closely OpenAI wants developers and businesses tied to its ecosystem. With the Agents API, OpenAI runs the agent infrastructure itself. Agents are AI programs that carry out tasks on their own. Plugins and web apps let developers offer their own products on OpenAI's platform.

The pitch is less technical work and access to what OpenAI says are 1.2 billion weekly ChatGPT users. The model resembles an app store. Developers build the apps, and OpenAI supplies the infrastructure and the way to reach customers.

What it means for business owners

Codex Harness, the underlying runtime, is open source. Developers can read the code and run it themselves. But The Decoder notes that anyone relying on managed services, platform-specific integrations and customers found through ChatGPT will likely have a hard time switching later.

Building on one platform is convenient today. It can also make leaving harder down the road. Worth asking any vendor or developer which parts of your setup would move easily and which would not.

What happens next

The next marker is the Dots rollout in Europe, which OpenAI puts at a few weeks away. It has not said when Personal Pro accounts in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK will get access, or which regulatory questions remain.