Inside OpenAI’s Decision to Combine Codex and ChatGPT
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Early last year, after Anthropic released a preview of its coding tool, Claude Code, OpenAI realized it had allowed the then-smaller AI rival to surpass it in coding. Around that time, OpenAI threw resources behind a new dedicated team that would focus specifically on developing AI tools for coding. Nearly 18 months later, OpenAI leaders - including Thibault Sottiaux, who oversaw the new team - came to a stark realization: The company’s Codex coding tool works better for many tasks than its flagship AI service, Chat.