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. Personal Pro accounts in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK are still locked out, although certain business accounts already have access. OpenAI says weekly active Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January 2026, but again did not share absolute numbers.
During the Q&A, management said customers have barely asked for a model that understands video sequences, so OpenAI has not prioritized one beyond single-frame analysis. The panel again blamed extreme resource demands for shutting down the Sora video generator in March, saying customers mainly wanted coding models and agents. OpenAI did not rule out bringing Sora back later.
The event also showed how OpenAI wants developers tied to its ecosystem. With the Agents API, OpenAI runs the agent infrastructure itself, while plugins and web apps let developers offer their products on its platform. The model resembles earlier app stores, with developers building apps and OpenAI supplying the infrastructure and distribution channel.
Why it matters if you build agents
Teams that rely on OpenAI's managed Agents API and ChatGPT distribution may find it harder to switch ecosystems later, even though the Codex Harness runtime is open source. Anyone planning for European users should track the Dots timeline, since Pro accounts there remain blocked for now.
Get stories like this every weekday
One short email with the day's agent tooling news.