OpenAI Workbench User Count Skyrockets
downingARK · x · 2026-07-17
The post notes that active users for Codex / ChatGPT Work surged dramatically following the launch of ChatGPT Work and its subsequent merger with Codex. Between July 12 and July 14, the platform added roughly 1 million new users daily.
The author estimates that this product line's user base has grown 40-fold since the beginning of the year. However, they caution that because OpenAI's desktop experience has now merged ChatGPT and Codex, current metrics are not strictly comparable to earlier time-series data.
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