OpenAI’s big Codex update is a direct shot at Anthropic’s Claude Code

Codex can control apps on your desktop like Tic Tac Toe. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system Codex with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. Codex will now be able to operate desktop apps on your computer, OpenAI says in a blog post announcing the update. It can work in the background, meaning it won't interfere with your own work in other apps, and multiple agents can work in parallel