Codex hits 25M users, may absorb OpenAI refugees from Cursor
haider1 · x · 2026-08-31
Data shows explosive growth for Codex: reaching 25M users from 1M in 7 months, and from 6M in just 7 weeks. The author predicts that as OpenAI pulls its models from Cursor, there may be a wave of 'Cursor refugees' who prefer GPT models migrating to Codex.
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