OpenAI Announces New Codex Tool for White Color Business

OpenAI takes its desire to court professional users seriously. On Tuesday, the AI ​​Lab released a new set of features for Codex, intended to expand the agent tool's uses in the workplace.

Along with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how the Codex is used for knowledge work, finding that its uses extend far beyond software engineering.

“Codex now has over 5 million weekly active users, a more than 6-fold increase since the desktop app launched in February,” reads a blog post introducing the report. “While developers remain the largest user group, knowledge workers now represent around 20% of users and are growing more than three times as fast. »

To further appeal to these users, OpenAI has released a set of six plugins aimed at specific tasks: data analysis, creative production, sales, product design, stock investing, and investment banking. Available from the Codex app, each of the new tools brings together integrations, instructions and context to help Codex get closer to specific work.

Like any AI tool, plugins will become more effective with user customization, but they are meant to be effective tools out of the box.

The new tools follow a similar push for agent plugins from Anthropic, which launched its Enterprise Agents program in February. (A more specific set of finance-oriented agents launched in May.) With its traditional consumer focus, OpenAI has been slower to court enterprise customers, only introducing plugin support for Codex in March.

With the plugins, OpenAI introduced a new Sites feature, which allows Codex to generate its product as a hosted interactive website, instead of just a local file. Under this system, OpenAI partners with Wix, Base44, Replit, Lovable, Figma and Emergent, although the company plans to develop a broader partner ecosystem to support the service.

A new annotations feature will also allow users to point to a specific part of a document or file in the Codex, allowing more specific contextual commands and operations.

The new enterprise features come just three weeks after OpenAI launched a new joint venture for enterprise customers, called the OpenAI Deployment Company. The venture includes more than $4 billion in funding from global investment firms, with the goal of integrating OpenAI tools more deeply into businesses around the world.

“AI is increasingly capable of doing more and more meaningful work within organizations,” Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, said in a statement at the launch. “The challenge now is to help businesses integrate these systems into the infrastructure and workflows that power their businesses. »