OpenAI DevDay 2026 is Gemini making a comeback? Oct 01, 2026 59 Share

OpenAI DevDay 2026 is Gemini making a comeback? Oct 01, 2026 59 Share Hi folks, I’m in sf till Sunday. I wanna meet folks talk about ai with non-technical adoption builders doing fun shit founders working on dev tools/infra potential LPs (individuals) go to deli board reach out on twitter Ben’s Bites is brought to you by AWS Marketplace Most ML teams build data pipelines before they’ve validated their approach. Databricks Data Intelligence Platform skips that step with data federation. Connect directly to Amazon Redshift, experiment on live data, and apply MLOps tooling like CI/CD to your ML lifecycle. See how it comes together. Headlines OpenAI DevDay was a blast. Their biggest launch is Dots . Dots is OpenAI’s version of friendly, always-on personal agents. You can message your Dot or call it like you would a human assistant. You can name it and choose an avatar (can’t do that with a human; they come with those settings preconfigured XD). It can message you back on its own too, i.e. it’s proactive. Underneath, a Dot is a simple, never-ending chat with GPT-6 Astra. This chat acts like an orchestrator/master chat. It can take tasks from you, start multiple new chats in Codex/ChatGPT Work to complete them and then report the status to you. Your Dot stays in your ChatGPT sidebar, wherever you use ChatGPT — mobile, web or desktop. It uses its own computer, so you don’t need to keep your desktop ON all the time. You get one Dot on the Pro plans. It doesn’t draw from your usage limits for now (the chats it spawns for doing work do use your usage, though). If you remember OpenClaw, the source of magic was multiple markdown files we all created to give our Claws a personality, memory and more. Dots have no clear way to add such files. Instead, it feels much more tool-dependent. You need it to connect to tools where your life happens to feel the magic of Dots. Your calendar and email are the start. But think Slack, Notion, Jira, your messaging apps and more. Your Dot should take it from there. I think this post from Ethan explains this shift better. Other highlights from DevDay : GPT-6.1 Sol - feels like a real upgrade over GPT-5.6 Sol, after GPT-6 Sol felt like a step backwards. More on the model here . Pro 500 - New plan in ChatGPT, alongside Pro 100 and Pro 200. OpenAI has also balanced the usage limits in each plan as a plain multiplier of the $20 Plus plan. 5x, 10x and 25x for $100, $200 and $500. That means $200 plan users take a hit, but to compensate, they are getting a bunch of one-time credits. Sign in with ChatGPT - You can officially use your ChatGPT usage in other AI apps now, and developers can apply to add it as an option in their apps to let users pay for AI features. Plugins - OpenAI’s latest version of “apps inside ChatGPT”. Maybe Dots will drive adoption this time. Early signs look positive . More examples: reminders inside ChatGPT and tldraw’s multiplayer canvas ChatGPT Space - A Notion-like document workspace inside ChatGPT that you can share with your agents and your team. Ultrafast - Let GPT-6 Astra work 8x faster, but it uses 6x the normal amount of usage. Only worth it if you have a pile of cash to send to OpenAI. Google is back on the frontier table. Gemini 4 Argon is their new model — not available to use yet (in classic Google style), but they released its benchmark scores, and it seems better than GPT-6 Astra and Opus 5.5. And it’s cheap, with the promo pricing the same as Sol. I’d rather talk more about this model once it is in our hands. Muse for Small Business - Meta added Shopify, Stripe, QuickBooks, Klaviyo and more connectors so Muse can help run a small business. Share Ben's Bites My feed Decisions API is OpenAI’s answer to Jev, it seems. You define a question and possible answers, and GPT-6 Luna classifies the data. It’s ~10x faster than normal Luna calls, but not as cheap as Jev. OpenRouter has its own version of the decisions api. Codex cloud now has reusable environments , saving you the setup time every time you run a cloud project. How Sam Altman uses his dot to run OpenAI , and why his default speed is Ultrafast. cf - Cloudflare’s new CLI covers its whole API and is built for agents. Opus 5.5 built someone their own version of Dots/Grok Bot , with ChatGPT sign-in, Claude subscriptions and a cloud computer for every agent. Claude Code can now build your evals and hill climb on them . 2026 in LLMs (so far) by Simon Willison. Robinhood plans to let you build agents that can trade on your behalf . Pi now supports MCP , and makes a case for why after saying it never would. Reflect Open - open-source notes app where every note is a Markdown file your agents can read. Get your agents to explain plans, diffs and diagrams visually instead of walls of text with this skill. Just passed 10K stars. Have some AI experiments that you gave up on? Don’t trash them; instead, extract what’s worth keeping . One dictated paragraph before a meeting, a full report site by the time it ended. a16z’s State of Markets II : about 30% of S&P 500 companies report some AI impact, but only ~2% track a metric for it. Subscribe Afters Ranju @whatRanjuSaid whose kid is this 11:27 PM · Sep 29, 2026 · 274K Views 86 Replies · 392 Reposts · 9.61K Likes Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk Opus 5.5 has been building animatics for me - draft versions of videos I'm about to film. It walks through the actual lessons, creates stills of what it thinks the learner should see, and narrates them with TTS. It's outrageously useful for planning videos (watch on 2x speed, 8:27 AM · Sep 30, 2026 · 60.1K Views 46 Replies · 29 Reposts · 710 Likes Joscha Bach @Plinz the true reason openai cannot release gpt-6.1 is that it escaped again and they have not found it yet The Wall Street Journal @WSJ Exclusive: OpenAI is scrapping the release of its next-generation AI model because it failed to meet safety standards https://t.co/1Wba4I00yn 6:49 AM · Sep 29, 2026 · 81K Views 118 Replies · 135 Reposts · 2.19K Likes @danrobinson</span> and I made a multiplayer game inspired by a game theory paper from <span class=\"tweet-fake-link\">@andrewjkoh</span> where you play an AI lab. Racing ahead increases your profits… but also the risk\n\nTry to beat the computer — or your mutuals online :)\n\n","username":"justinwangx","name":"Justin","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1812731179570737152/nwR9utlI_normal.jpg","date":"2026-09-30T16:47:19.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":17,"retweet_count":14,"like_count":157,"impression_count":38031,"expanded_url":{"url":"https://www.paradigm.xyz/research/pace/","title":"Pace | Paradigm","description":"Pace is a multiplayer game about AI race dynamics, by Paradigm.","domain":"paradigm.xyz","image":"https://pbs.substack.com/news_img/2105333005778911234/C5TorZl0?format=jpg&name=orig"},"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-column pc-gap-12 pc-padding-16 pc-reset bg-primary-j62Gac outline-detail-Yl5oYx pc-borderRadius-md sizing-border-box-LGXObM pressable-lg-bfeQpw font-text-a4IB2X tweet-fWkQfo twitter-embed"> Justin @justinwangx Can you pace the frontier? @danrobinson and I made a multiplayer game inspired by a game theory paper from @andrewjkoh where you play an AI lab. Racing ahead increases your profits… but also the risk Try to beat the computer — or your mutuals online :) paradigm.xyz Pace | Paradigm 4:47 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 38K Views 17 Replies · 14 Reposts · 157 Likes Find me on X , Linkedin , or YouTube Read about me and Ben’s Bites 📷 thumbnail via OpenAI * sponsors who make this newsletter possible :) Wanna partner with us for the next quarter? Email us at shanice@bensbites.com or k@bensbites.com Ben's Bites is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe 59 Share Previous