Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
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OpenAI's Codex reached 10 million users combined with ChatGPT Work just two weeks after launching ChatGPT Work on July 9th, expanding beyond developers to knowledge workers who now represent roughly 20% of users and are growing 3x faster than developers. The product consolidation merged Codex and ChatGPT Work under a shared agent harness, enabling non-technical users to describe outcomes and have AI agents assemble tools across documents, spreadsheets, and other work primitives. This shift reflects OpenAI's broader strategy to make AI capabilities accessible to the 100x more people who use code but cannot write it, transforming knowledge work by replacing traditional scattered applications with unified agentic interfaces.
Why it matters
OpenAI's core product engineering lead on how they are building ChatGPT Work to make AGI accessible to all of humanity: Sites, OpenClaw, Memory, Subagents, Finance, No-Code and advice.
