What is really new in Berlin
At the 2026 DevDay Exchange in Berlin, OpenAI largely repeated announcements already made in San Francisco, but added some details. According to Romain Huet, head of developer experience, the Dots AI assistant should become more widely available in Europe 'in a few weeks,' after discussions with regulators. Personal Pro accounts in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom remain excluded from the service, while some business accounts can already access it.
On Codex, the coding tool, OpenAI reports that in Germany weekly active users have grown twentyfold since January 2026. The company did not provide absolute numbers. According to OpenAI, nearly one in five desktop users uses skills for documents, presentations or spreadsheets, a sign that the tool is also being used for office work beyond writing code.
The questions left open
During the Q&A, OpenAI was asked why it still does not offer a model capable of understanding video sequences like Google's Gemini. Management responded that customers had rarely asked for it and that the feature had therefore not been prioritized beyond the analysis of individual frames.
Management also attributed the March shutdown of the Sora video generator to strong demand for resources, explaining that customers were mainly asking for coding models and agents; a future return was not ruled out. Because agents run on their own virtual computers and AI-generated code grows rapidly, demand for traditional computing power increases: to reduce it, OpenAI has a dedicated team that analyzes its internal code every week.
The strategy: platform before models
Beyond the individual announcements, the event's message concerns the business model. With APIs for agents, OpenAI directly manages the infrastructure; plugins and web apps give developers ways to offer their products on its platform. The promise is less technical work and access to what the company describes as 1.2 billion weekly ChatGPT users: a structure similar to that of previous app stores, with developers building the applications and OpenAI providing infrastructure and a distribution channel.
Keeping the underlying runtime, Codex Harness, open source does not weaken this strategy according to the proposed reading: the code can be read and run independently, but those who depend on managed services, platform-specific integrations and finding customers through ChatGPT could have difficulty changing ecosystems later. The message from Berlin, therefore, is not only that models are improving, but that OpenAI wants developers to build their businesses on its infrastructure.
