OpenAI launches research preview of Codex AI software engineering agent for developers — with parallel tasking

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Surprise! Just days after reports emerged suggesting OpenAI was buying white-hot coding startup Windsurf, the former company appears to be launching its own competitor service as a research preview under its brand name Codex, going head-to-head against Windsurf, Cursor, and the growing list of AI coding tools offered by startups and large tech companies including Microsoft and Amazon. Unlike OpenAI’s previous Codex code completion AI model, the new version is a full cloud-based AI software engineering (SWE) agent built atop a fine-tuned version of OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model that can execute multiple development tasks in parallel. Starting today it will be available for ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users, with support for Plus and Edu users expected soon. Codex’s evolution: from model to autonomous AI coding agent This release marks a significant step ... Read full article.