OpenAI is serious about appealing to enterprise users. On Tuesday, AI Labs released a new feature set for Codex aimed at expanding the use of agent tools in the workplace.
Along with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, and found that its uses go far beyond software engineering.
“Codex now has more than 5 million weekly active users, an increase of more than 6x since the launch of the desktop app in February,” says a blog post introducing the report. “While developers remain the largest user group, knowledge workers now represent about 20 percent of users and are growing more than three times faster.”
To further engage these users, OpenAI has released a set of six plugins targeting specific tasks such as data analysis, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Each new tool available from within the Codex app bundles integrations, instructions, and context to enable Codex to approximate a specific job.
Like any AI tool, the plugin is designed to be an effective tool out of the box, although it can be made more effective through user customization.
This new tool comes on the heels of a similar agent plugin push by Anthropic, which launched its enterprise agent program in February. (A more specific set of financially-oriented agents launched in May.) OpenAI’s traditional consumer focus slowed its appeal to enterprise customers, only introducing plugin support for Codex in March.
Along with the plugin, OpenAI has introduced a new Sites feature. This allows Codex to output your work products as a hosted, interactive website rather than just a local file. As part of that system, OpenAI has partnered with Wix, Base44, Replit, Lovable, Figma, and Emergent, but the company plans to develop a larger partner ecosystem to support the service.
New annotation features allow users to specify specific parts of documents or files within the Codex, allowing for more specific commands and contextual manipulation.
The new enterprise capabilities come just three weeks after OpenAI launched a new joint venture called OpenAI Deployment Company for enterprise customers. The venture includes more than $4 billion in funding from global investment firms to further integrate OpenAI tools into businesses around the world.
“AI is increasingly capable of doing meaningful work within organizations,” Dennis Dresser, chief revenue officer at OpenAI, said in a statement at the time of the announcement. “The challenge now is to help companies integrate these systems into the infrastructure and workflows that drive their business.”
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