[AINews] Codex usage up >10x in 6 months to 7M users, +1M in the past ~day; did Codex overtake Claude Code??
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Codex usage grew from 2 million users in March to 7 million users by mid-July, representing approximately 10x growth over six months. The service added 1 million new users in roughly a single day following the July 9 launch of GPT 5.6 Sol, reaching 6 million users within 48 hours. Codex's growth trajectory now appears to match or exceed Claude Code's expansion, shifting competitive focus toward which coding platform maintains momentum in user adoption.
Why it matters
a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting...
