India, April 17 -- OpenAI is pushing Codex into a bigger role. The tool is no longer being framed only as a coding assistant that helps inside an editor. With this update, Codex starts looking more like an agentic workspace that can write code, test interfaces, review pull requests, use tools, remember context, and carry work forward over time.

OpenAI says more than 3 million developers use Codex every week, and the new release adds computer use, an in-app browser, image generation, memory, automations, and more than 90 plugins. That mix changes the technical story around Codex. It is moving from a mostly stateless helper to a stateful, multimodal, operating system-aware assistant.

The headline feature is background computer use. Codex ...