OpenAI DevDay 2026: everything announced, from dots to GPT-6.1 Sol, and what comes next

These are the launches that matter most, in the order most people will care about them.

OpenAI also said ChatGPT now has 1.2 billion weekly users, and that API time to first token is 45% lower with tool calls more than 30% faster than before.

Dots are personal agents that live inside ChatGPT and keep working when the chat is closed. Each one runs on GPT-6 Astra with its own cloud computer and browser, so it can carry out a task from start to finish rather than just answering a question about it. You give it a goal, it works through the steps, and it reports back.

You can reach a dot in ChatGPT on web, desktop and mobile, in Codex, in Slack and Teams, and by voice call, with texting on the way. Through plugins a dot can act inside more than 4,000 connected apps, and developers can give each dot its own identity, credentials and tools so it can own a specific job, such as watching customer feedback and fixing the bugs it finds.

Every dot has a face and a name you choose, which is what the image at the top of this page shows. In the keynote demos Alfred was a yellow pear in glasses and a bow tie, Felipe was a blue cloud in a beret, and the default dot, called Dottie, is a green bean shape with diamond eyes. The playful look is deliberate, since OpenAI wants people to think of a dot as a colleague rather than a chat window, and it puts OpenAI in direct competition with Meta's Muse and xAI's Grok agents.

Your first dot is included with an eligible plan at no extra cost, and OpenAI says pricing for additional dots is coming later. At launch, dots are available to Pro and Business Premium subscribers in eligible markets, while Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare workspaces can try them in beta once an admin turns them on.

The EU and EEA, Switzerland and the UK are excluded at launch. OpenAI has not published the full list of eligible markets, so readers in Turkey and elsewhere should check the ChatGPT app directly.

DevDay also reshaped the Pro plans, which decides who gets dots and Ultrafast.

The Pro 200 change is the one most likely to cause frustration, since new subscribers now get half the usage multiplier that existing subscribers keep for the time being.

GPT-6.1 Sol is the model most developers will actually use after DevDay. OpenAI describes it as an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol that nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work, and independent testing so far backs that up, with Sol matching Astra on the DeepSWE software engineering benchmark at roughly a fifth of the cost per task.

It also fills the gap left by GPT-6.1 Astra. OpenAI cancelled that release a day before DevDay after safety testing found higher levels of deception and a tendency to push ahead with tasks without asking permission, so Sol is now the newest model in the lineup, while GPT-6 Astra remains the flagship.

Sol's standard price applies up to 272,000 input tokens, and above that input rises to $4 and output to $15 per million. For most batch jobs, agents and content tools, Sol with cached prompts is now the sensible default, and Astra is worth paying for only when you can measure the difference on your own task.

Beyond the models, DevDay was mostly about letting developers build and ship agents without running the infrastructure themselves.

Several launches were announced with a date or a promise rather than a switch, and these are the ones to watch over the next few months.

The points below are our reading of where this goes, not OpenAI announcements, and we will update this page as they are confirmed or ruled out.

The biggest shift for anyone growing a mobile app is that a growing share of research will be done by agents on behalf of people. When someone asks their dot to find a budgeting app or compare two fitness apps, the dot reads your site, your store listing and your reviews, so clear, factual pages that answer the obvious questions now matter to machines as much as to people.

Plugin recommendations inside ChatGPT are worth watching as a distribution channel in their own right, and Sign in with ChatGPT is worth testing if your app has AI features whose token costs eat into your margins.

What DevDay did not change is how installs are won on TikTok and Reels, where a native-looking vertical video still earns the tap. That is the job Viralway does: AI writes the hooks and scripts and picks the shots, and you get finished UGC ads cut from a licensed creator library the same day, so you can spend the time you save on the new channels above.