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OpenAI's Codex absorbed ChatGPT within a year, report reveals

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A report by Every's Dan Shipper, based on interviews with six key participants, details how OpenAI's coding agent Codex, led by Thibault Sottiaux, recovered from a low point to effectively absorb ChatGPT. The report notes that the ChatGPT desktop app still identifies itself as com.openai.codex on Mac, and that Codex's weekly active users surpassed 5 million in June, with Codex and ChatGPT for Work now exceeding 40 million combined.

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    Tibo的Codex翻盘记：接手不到一年就吞掉了ChatGPT

    编辑｜Panda 前两天，科技媒体 Every 的联合创始人兼 CEO Dan Shipper 发布了一篇长篇深度报道《 How Codex Happened 》，完整还原了 OpenAI 编程智能体 Codex 在过去一年多里从低谷走向翻盘的全过程。 为了这篇稿件，Shipper 用数月时间采访了六位 Codex 核心参与者： OpenAI 总裁兼联合创始人 Greg Brockman Codex 负责人 Thibault Sottiaux（也就是 Tibo ） Codex 前产品负责人 Alexander Embiricos 研究员 Mia Glaese 设计师兼工程师 Andrew Ambrosino 设计师 Ed Bayes Shipper 本人也是亲历者：Every 长期在新模型发布前获得测试权限并发布「Vibe Check」评测，GPT-5 发布前夜，他就坐在 OpenAI 的办公室里。 这篇报道的形式也很特别。Shipper 称之为「 智能体原生（agent-native） 」稿件：六场采访的完整文字稿全部随文附上，点击任意一句引语都能跳到原始对话，读者还可以让自己的智能体去交叉比对文字稿、提炼产品经验，甚至挖出作者遗漏的洞见。据 Every 介绍， 这篇报道本身也是借助 Codex 采写完成的。 文中值得玩味的细节不少。如今的 ChatGPT 桌面应用，在 Mac 系统里报给自己的名字仍是 com.openai.codex， Codex 是从内部「吞掉」了 ChatGPT 。外界以为 Codex 拥有独立模型线是高层拍板的远见，Tibo 却直言根本不存在这样一个决定。 一年之内，团队先后做了四种产品形态：云端、终端、编辑器侧边栏，最后是一个完全没有代码编辑器的桌面应用。为了验证这个「不让人亲手改代码」的应用行不行，Embiricos 每天进办公室都要挨个追问同事：你今天拿它当主力工具了吗？ 结果很是惊人。据 Every 报道，今年 6 月 Codex 周活超过 500 万；7 月，Codex 桌面应用直接成为新版 ChatGPT 桌面应用；如今 Codex 与 ChatGPT for Work 合计周活超过 4000 万， Tibo 也已升任 OpenAI 全部核心产品与平台的负责人 ，统管 ChatGPT、Codex 和 API。 下面，我们沿着

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