The new app is not just a convenience for users who use chat and coding and agents to have it in one place, but it is also a strategic play by OpenAI to funnel them into more lucrative businesses areas — particularly when it comes to agents.
Thibault Sottiaux, who leads OpenAI’s core product and platform efforts, tells the FT that the app will give you a personal agent to do stuff for you, be it personal or work, doing far more than the classic Codex, which now performs computer use and does office tasks.
In fact, 20% of Codex users are now knowledge workers, OpenAI reported last week. This category is also growing three times as fast as other use cases.
The concept is that you will have access to the new app from everywhere you go, from mobile to desktop to the web, so you could even talk to it in your car.
The idea behind the app is to boost revenue and ease enterprise adoption, now counting 2 million Codex users and accounting for 40% of revenue, Reuters reports.
Read more: The Financial Times, Reuters.