Fun Fact: OpenAI's Codex Launched Before ChatGPT Did
kavirkaycee · x · 2026-09-28
Quoting Sam Altman's original announcement of the Codex API (AI that writes code from natural language), kavirkaycee points out a fun fact: Codex actually launched before ChatGPT. Codex shipped in 2021 and powered GitHub Copilot, over a year before ChatGPT's late-2022 debut.
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