India, Oct. 7 -- OpenAI has officially moved its Codex coding assistant from research preview to general availability, making the AI agent a standard collaborator for engineering teams. The full release introduces a new Slack integration, a dedicated Software Development Kit (SDK), and enhanced administrative tools, all powered by the specialised GPT-5-Codex model.

Since its research preview launched in May, daily usage of Codex has seen a significant increase, growing over ten times since early August. The underlying model, GPT-5-Codex, shows high adoption, serving over 40 trillion tokens in the three weeks following its launch. Inside OpenAI, the tool has become central to development, with almost all engineers now using Codex. The com...