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OpenAI DevDay 2026

Dots

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Alex Finn, another early tester, on who dots are for and who they are not for.

Alex Finn 30 Sep 2026

OpenAI just released Dots, their competitor to Grok Bot and Muse

I've had early access for a bit, and I really like it

Its biggest differentiators are that it has access to ALL your ChatGPT memories, as well as all the amazing tools in the ChatGPT harness including:

• Voice mode
• ChatGPT plugins
• The new ChatGPT Spaces
• much more

Is it wildly differentiated from the other agents? No.

But if you've been using ChatGPT for a while, the fact that it just knows you and all your past chats really well is massive

And if you are a desktop app power user like me, being able to have your agent spin up codex threads on the go is wildly helpful

If you are more in the 'normie' crowd who primarily just has your agent make restaurant reservations, probably not for you

But if you use AI daily for more advanced stuff like building and doing all your knowledge work, it's excellent

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The verdict

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Token Gremlin at the end of the day, on the gap between what OpenAI built up and what many people were waiting for.

Token Gremlin 5h

I’ve been getting dozens of DMs from people saying how disappointed they were with DevDay, and I think the reason is pretty clear. OpenAI built an enormous amount of hype around this event, so a lot of users went in expecting some kind of “miracle.”

Many were specifically waiting for a direct answer to Opus 5.5 in raw performance. Instead, OpenAI’s answer was much more about speed, efficiency, and cost.

To be fair, a smaller group absolutely loved that approach. GPT-6.1 Sol being much cheaper while getting close to Astra-level capability is genuinely impressive. But for a lot of people, that wasn’t the thing they were waiting for.

Then there’s the usage limits. The announced reductions hit people hard, especially because many users already felt constrained before DevDay. Cutting limits during an event that was supposed to make people excited was always going to leave a bad taste.

And I think Plus users are probably the most frustrated group right now. They were hoping for something meaningful in ChatGPT itself, but GPT-6.1 Sol launched in Work and Codex only. So once again, the obvious question is: "Where is Chat mode?"

I don’t think DevDay was a bad event. There were genuinely impressive launches here. But I do think there’s a very real gap between what OpenAI hyped, what users expected, and what many of them actually received. That’s worth listening to.

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From the floor

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OpenAI's developer account on the 48 hours of side quests that followed the keynote.

OpenAI Developers 6h

Ready for a DevDay side quest?

10 builder challenges.
5 Codex Micros up for grabs.

Complete any 5 side quests to earn 1 raffle ticket for each.

48 hours. Join from anywhere 🌎
Dots

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Max Weinbach, an analyst at Creative Strategies, who could not make it to DevDay and had a dot handle the cancellations instead.

Max Weinbach 6h

This is kind of cool with dots

I got a little bit sick in Hawaii and after an 8 1/2 hour delay last Monday, the idea of flying to San Francisco for Dev Day was simply not happening (I appreciate the invite OpenAI, it was just too much all like 5 days before)

But I had dots go cancel my non-refundable hotel and flight and try to get me a refund. It emailed the hotel, who didn’t respond. After 2 days it decided to email the general manager of the hotel and request it, then got the GM to approve the cancellation with no fee. It noticed there was a $210 charge on my card after the GM agreed, so it followed up to ask why for me.

It also submitted a request with Delta for me, citing the 8.5 hour delay and saying the idea of getting on a plane after that was brutal and requesting an exception. I got a call an hour ago from support saying they’ll approve the request and do a full refund.

Couldn’t make it to Dev Day, but it still got me a full refund on 2 non-refundable bookings.

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