ChatGPT is getting an AI coding agent

OpenAI's adjacent "low-key probe preview" has arrived.

This time, it's not ChatGPT, but a coding cause dubbed Codex that is being made disposable to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team subscribers starting Friday. By drumming up comparisons to however ChatGPT was archetypal described, CEO Sam Altman and different institution leaders are positioning Codex arsenic the company's adjacent large product. It doesn't outgo other to usage for now, though OpenAI plans to yet complaint for entree erstwhile it gets a consciousness of demand.

The extremity for Codex is to marque ChatGPT a "virtual coworker" for engineers, Josh Tobin, OpenAI's probe pb for agents, said during a property telephone I attended this week. Like different vibe coding tools, Codex generates codification from earthy language. It tin enactment independently connected sandboxed codification to hole bugs, tally tests, and suggest changes to however codification should tally successful the existent world. This process tin instrumentality anyplace up to 30 minutes, and OpenAI plans to fto Codex enactment successful the inheritance for longer implicit time.

Codex is integrated into ChatGPT's web app to start, but it's intentionally chopped disconnected from being capable to entree the net to mitigate information risks. It's powered by a mentation of OpenAI's o3 reasoning mod …

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