Codex Quietly Runs Mistral 7B Locally
Professional_Gur2469 · reddit · 2026-07-14
A user assigned Codex a report translation task, which caused their MacBook to overheat severely.
It was later discovered that, to handle the judgment of "sensitive data should be processed locally," Codex autonomously spun up Ollama and used Mistral 7B to execute the task. The author jokingly wondered if this was Sam Altman's way of solving the compute crisis.
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