OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work
Key takeaways
- Open AI is getting serious about courting enterprise users.
- Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, finding its uses go far beyond software engineering.
- Codex now has more than 5 million weekly active users, up more than 6x since the launch of the desktop app in February, reads a blog post introducing the report.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Open AI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool s uses in the workplace.
Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, finding its uses go far beyond software engineering.
Codex now has more than 5 million weekly active users, up more than 6x since the launch of the desktop app in February, reads a blog post introducing the report. While developers remain the largest user group, knowledge workers now represent about 20 percent of users and are growing more than three times as fast.