OpenAI's Mark Chen: Codex Directly Manages Hundreds of Thousands of Chips for Research
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-26
OpenAI's Mark Chen describes the "automated AI research intern" as an agent that arrives with little context but can be trusted with well-scoped work like running experiments and debugging. The first milestone: hundreds of thousands of chips directly managed by Codex to run internal research experiments — which he says is already the current state.
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