To mark the launch and encourage use, the company has doubled all rate limits for paid plans for two months. When it comes to desktop app releases, the company tends to target the Mac because the platform has a huge and active concentration of developers, making it a good place to build new kingdoms. (It plans to introduce Windows and Linux support in the future.) Already, OpenAI claims Codex has been used by more than 1 million developers.
Some features Codex provides
The Mac app gives users the ability to edit code, run workflows and to support agentic tasks through a ChatGPT-like simple UI. Agents are organized within separate threads and projects, which means you can move between tasks and have work running while you do something else; as the project status changes, you’ll see notes in the interface.
You can also deploy a large assortment of pre-programmed “skills” and automations, which let you use Codex to do specific tasks. The introduction of a Mac app means Codex is able to access native app features and workflows that aren’t always easily available from within a browser.
