Codex AMA: Weekly Active Users Exceed 5 Million
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-07-12
This is a summary of the OpenAI Codex team's Reddit AMA. The core update is that Codex now has over 5 million weekly active users, doubling in three months, alongside 150 shipped improvements.
The team also shared future directions, including:
- A Linux desktop version is in development, though there is no timeline yet;
- Continued focus on improving agent persistence and reducing code complexity;
- No automatic model routing currently; the product leans towards letting Codex assess task difficulty autonomously while retaining manual switching between speed/reasoning modes;
- Slack, GitHub, and Notion connectors are viewed as key steps toward making Codex a "productive coworker";
- GPT-5.6 has been specifically trained for UI and frontend work;
- No commitment was made regarding a 1 million token context window;
- While pricing isn't guaranteed to remain unchanged, the goal remains broad accessibility.
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