In an interview after OpenAI DevDay, core executive Tibo Sottiaux said the market has not fully priced in the second-order effects of AI, highlighting three trends: agents will handle most internet operations, models will become faster and cheaper, and multimodality will merge seamlessly. He also disclosed plans to merge ChatGPT Chat and Work, embed Dots into ChatGPT for 1.2 billion users, a decision not to release the Astra 6.1 model, 16 partners adopting Sign in with ChatGPT, shared-economics revenue sharing, a dual-track compute safety model, and the appointment of newcomer Ahmed Ibrahim to lead all compute resources and application deployment.
At OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco on September 29, 2026, CEO Sam Altman announced the launch of a new AI agent product called Dots and argued that AI's impact will surpass the Industrial Revolution and should be more like the Renaissance. He criticized tokens as a poor metric, said Dots can handle tasks and notifications for him and may run on devices developed by OpenAI, advocated a middle path on AI safety, and said now is the best time to enter the job market.
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI unveiled Private Intelligence, a privacy initiative comprising ZDR with Private Safety Processing (PSP), now available and enabling automated safety reviews without storing customer content, and Private Inference, launching in fall 2026, which combines confidential computing with verifiable controls. CEO Sam Altman showcased the two components during the keynote.
OpenAI's 2026 DevDay opened in San Francisco amid a joint protest by over 15 organizations, including Bay Resistance, Tech Workers Coalition, and SEIU. Demonstrators rallied outside Fort Mason, displaying "People Over AI" signs and demanding a 100-mile safety buffer between AI data centers and residential areas.
OpenAI announced at DevDay a new $500-per-month Pro subscription with its highest usage allowance and access to Ultrafast, which boosts Codex and Work generation to up to 300 tokens per second. It also cut allowances on the existing $200 Pro plan, introduced a personal AI agent called Dot for Pro subscribers, and partnered with Notion, Cognition and other companies to let Plus and Pro users run OpenAI models on their platforms.
Tipster Alexey Shabanov reports that OpenAI is set to launch a persistent AI assistant codenamed "O," expected to be unveiled at OpenAI DevDay on September 29. Clues in ChatGPT configuration files, including the display name and "-o" email suffix, suggest the agent may run continuously and have an independent identity, with the project possibly linked to "Aeon."