OpenAI expands Codex with enterprise tools and role plugins

OpenAI has significantly expanded its Codex platform, transforming the AI coding tool into a broader enterprise productivity platform with new features aimed at non-technical knowledge workers. The company announced the updates on Tuesday, introducing a new Sites feature for creating hosted web applications, an enhanced Annotations tool for in-place editing, and six role-specific plugins that integrate with dozens of popular business applications.

Codex now has over 5 million weekly active users, a sixfold increase since the launch of its standalone desktop application in February. While developers remain the largest user group, knowledge workers—including financial analysts, marketers, and operations staff—now constitute approximately 20 percent of the user base and are adopting the platform more than three times faster than engineers.

The new Sites feature, launching in preview for business and enterprise customers, allows Codex to generate interactive, hosted websites that can be shared via a URL within a workspace. This enables users to turn static documents, like spreadsheets, into live dashboards, project boards, or planners through natural language prompts. The...