OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers
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OpenAI is enhancing Codex with role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, and investment banking, targeting non-developers.
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OpenAI is enhancing Codex with role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, and investment banking, targeting non-developers. With 5 million weekly users, one in five are non-developers, a group growing three times faster than developers, indicating Codex's evolution into a general-purpose work app.
Key Points
- Codex now includes plugins tailored for specific roles like data analysis and sales.
- 5 million users engage with Codex weekly, with a significant portion being non-developers.
- The non-developer user base is expanding three times faster than that of developers.
- OpenAI aims to position Codex as an all-purpose application for various professional tasks.
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~1 min readOpenAI has shipped a batch of new features for Codex, including role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, product design, and investment banking; 62 apps and 110 capabilities in total. Legal and marketing plugins are next. Anthropic has been offering similar plugins for a while, mostly a mix of agent prompts ("skills"), predefined tools like web search, and data connectors.
Two smaller additions: "Sites" lets users publish analyses or plans as interactive websites, and "Annotations" lets people highlight parts of documents or tables and request changes on the spot. OpenAI is also opening Codex to third-party developers, with Wix, Figma, and Replit as early partners.
More than five million people now use Codex each week, OpenAI says. The non-developer group—analysts, designers, and bankers—is growing three times faster than the developer base, according to the company. While Codex started as a coding tool, OpenAI appears to be positioning it as an all-purpose work app, possibly with the long-term goal of folding it into a ChatGPT super app.
— Originally published at the-decoder.com
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