"OpenAI is launching a Codex App, a desktop experience for managing the company's AI coding tools, as competitive pressure to deploy autonomous AI agents heats up.The desktop app is designed to be more intuitive than earlier versions of Codex, potentially broadening Codex's appeal beyond the software engineers who have been its primary users so far. OpenAI's move follows rival Anthropic's debut of a similar application for its popular Claude coding assistant, called Code Cowork, in January."
"OpenAI's Codex tool has already been credited with some productivity gains. Independent developer Peter Steinberger, creator of the now viral AI tool OpenClaw (which spawned "social network for AI agents" Moltbook), said in a post on X that his productivity had roughly doubled since switching to OpenAI's Codex. Steinberger has said he built the entire OpenClaw tool with OpenAI's Codex, despite publicly saying Anthropic's Claude Opus is the "best general-purpose agent" and the model recommended for use in OpenClaw."
OpenAI launched the Codex App, a desktop interface for managing AI coding tools. The app is more intuitive than earlier versions and aims to expand usage beyond software engineers. The release follows Anthropic's Code Cowork, which similarly targets non-developers building AI agents that integrate with local software. Developers report productivity gains using Codex, with an independent developer saying productivity roughly doubled and that he built OpenClaw entirely with Codex. Internal teams used Codex to ship an Android app in 28 days. Over one million developers used Codex in the past month. Competition with Anthropic and Google is intensifying.
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