OpenAI has launched an AI agent in ChatGPT, Codex, that can handle multiple software engineering tasks on behalf of users simultaneously.

Sam Altman and other company leaders hyped the announcement yesterday on X by teasing it as their next “low-key research preview,” which is how ChatGPT itself was first described. You can watch OpenAI demo Codex below and read more about it in this week’s Command Line.

OpenAI launched Codex, its third AI agent this year, aimed at assisting software engineers and novices with coding tasks. It can write features, fix bugs, and answer coding questions in a private environment,