Codex is less than a year old, but the AI coding platform may be the key to OpenAI’s dream of a superapp — a theoretical one-stop shop for ChatGPT, its Atlas browser and Codex. OpenAI said that Codex, not ChatGPT, will be the foundation for this app.
“We’re actually doing the sneaky thing where we’re building the super app in the open and evolving it out of the Codex app,” Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead for Codex, told reporters during a briefing this week.
Codex has been a popular app of choice for AI developers and vibe coders. As of now, OpenAI says Codex has more than 3 million weekly users. But nearly half of Codex use is for non-coding tasks, according to OpenAI. So the company on Thursday announced a series of updates to make Codex more integrated into every part of your work day, not just coding. The biggest news is
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