OpenAI Dev Day: Three Scenarios for How the AI Platform War Ends in 2027

OpenAI just had one of their biggest days of the year, but it was all dressed in developer speak.

I spent hours digging in this week, and I’m realizing that we aren’t really hearing the real story anywhere.

The common story is that OpenAI is going for world domination, they are launching startup killer apps left-and-right, and they have basically won the AI game.

I don’t think the story is that simple as I talk to developers and leaders who are actually affected by all this. I dug into it with the video, talking about the story that’s behind the scenes.

I also collected some of the early reactions I’m hearing from builders and leaders around the industry. Spoiler alert: they’re not all as happy with OpenAI as the newspaper stories might suggest.

Finally (as always) I want to bring it home for you, so I started to pull out implications of Dev Day for builders, for leaders, and for AI enthusiasts.

I know it’s weird to say that Dev Day matters for everyone, but when you’re a company that has 10% of the planet for customers, and when this is THE biggest build even of the year, it matters.

So dig in, get the full details, and grab the custom prompt that will help you figure out how to apply all of this to YOUR situation.

OpenAI played the first move, but it’s up to the rest of us to write the rest of the story. Let’s make it a good one.