OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop
By Lucas Ropek
Published on April 16, 2026.
OpenAI has updated its automated tool, Codex, with new features and updates designed to give it significantly expanded powers. Codex can now operate in the background on your computer and can deploy multiple agents, all of which work on a user's Mac simultaneously without interfering with their own work in other apps. The company also announced 111 plugin integrations from apps like CodeRabbit and Gitlab Issues to allow Codex to perform tasks involving these tools. Codex now has an in-app browser, which allows a user to issue commands to the agentic tool, which will be used for frontend and game development. Additionally, a new pay-as-you-go Codex pricing option has been announced for enterprise and business customers.
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