OpenAI (OPENAI) on Monday unveiled a stand-alone Codex app for Apple’s (AAPL) macOS, amid increased usage for its popular artificial intelligence coding assistant.
The Codex app has a refreshed interface that allows developers “to effortlessly manage multiple agents at once, run work in parallel, and collaborate with agents over long-running tasks,” the company said on its website.
It will let users with ChatGPT Free and Go accounts have access to Codex for a “limited” time, while users with Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans will get double the rate limit.
“The Codex app changes how software gets built and who can build it—from pairing with a single coding agent on targeted edits to supervising coordinated teams of agents across the full lifecycle of designing, building, shipping, and maintaining software,” OpenAI added.
In addition to the new app, the Sam Altman-led firm said that developers have substantially increased their usage of Codex just in the past month, as more than 1M developers have used the tool.
“We’ll continue to expand where and how developers can use Codex, including making the app available on Windows, pushing the frontier of model capabilities, and rolling out faster inference,” OpenAI added. “Within the app, we’ll keep refining multi-agent workflows based on real-world feedback, making it easier to manage parallel work and move between agents without losing context. We’re also building out Automations with support for cloud-based triggers, so Codex can run continuously in the background—not just when your computer is open.”