OpenAI brings Dots to Europe, pushes developers to its platform

openai's ai assistant dots is set to launch in europe within weeks, after discussions with regulators. in germany, weekly active codex users have grown twentyfold since january 2026. openai is prioritizing coding tools and agents, and aims to lock developers into its platform with the agents api and access to 1.2 billion weekly chatgpt users. the company shut down sora due to high resource costs and low demand, but didn't rule out its return. openai's strategy involves providing infrastructure and distribution channels for developers.