OpenAI teases Dots for Europe, but its Berlin DevDay was really about building a platform

What happened

OpenAI's Berlin DevDay emphasized its platform strategy, with The Decoder arguing that managed agent infrastructure, integrations, and ChatGPT distribution could make developers increasingly dependent on its ecosystem. OpenAI said Dots should become more widely available in Europe "in a few weeks" following regulatory talks and reported twentyfold growth in weekly active Codex users in Germany since January 2026, without absolute figures. The analysis compares this strategy to app stores and argues that open-sourcing Codex Harness does not eliminate potential switching difficulties.

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