Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
TechCrunch AI Lucas Ropek ● Covered by 3 sources
OpenAI released a $230 light-up keyboard called the Codex Micro, designed to control AI coding agents through customizable keys, status lights, and a dial for adjusting computational reasoning levels. The keyboard is a limited-run collaboration with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder and connects to ChatGPT's desktop app. OpenAI is simultaneously developing a separate screenless smart speaker with moving mechanical parts, designed by former Apple engineers, which is still in development and unfinished.
Why it matters
OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.
