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ChatGPT and Codex Are Becoming One Workflow
English translation of the Chinese original. This version is generated for international readers and may be refined over time.
English translation of the Chinese original. This version is generated for international readers and may be refined over time.
Date: 2026-06-03
Text source: OpenAI official information, searchnews mapping
On June 2, 2026, OpenAI launched a live broadcast:Intelligence at Work.
I always thought the time was 8:30 this morning, the result. Perfectly missed, so we can only watch the replay.
I finished reading the whole press conference, which was not just a few more office plugs.
The real change is: **OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into an entrance and Codex into an executive layer. **
OpenAI wants to integrate ChatGPT and Codex directly.
I said yesterday Tibo sent a message saying ** that we should change the name of Codex to ChatGPT**, which looks like research to you, and actually reports to you.
Before you asked ChatGPT, it gave you answers. Now OpenAI wants you to tell one thing in ChatGPT, and then let Codex look behind the files, run tools, write codes, make pages, change PPT, and finally come up with something that can be delivered.
One of the things that struck me most after reading the launch was that Codex was no longer a programmer.
Codex's earliest label is clear: Write the code.
In May 2025, when OpenAI published Codex, the official definition was a cloud software project, Agent. It can read codes, change files, run tests, submit patches in independent Sandbox. For programmers, this is a very different kind of colleague.
But a year later, OpenAI discovered something.
Codex's user is not just writing code.
Officially, several figures were given this time: Codex has been living more than 5 million a week; non-developers account for about 20 per cent; this group is growing more than three times faster than developers.
Text source: OpenAI official information, searchnews mapping
That explains why OpenAI is going to do this integration.
If Codex is just a developer tool, it can stay in its App, CLI, Ide.
But if Codex starts helping the market team with the lanch kit, helps the sales team with the customer follow-up, helps the finance team with the monthly file, and helps the operations team with the process audit, it cannot just stay at the programmer's entrance.
It has to go into ChatGPT.
Because the real portal to the business is ChatGPT.
ChatGPT, access, Codex, run
But it's not a simple merger of two Apps, it's a role-breaker.
ChatGPT is responsible for lowering the use threshold.
Codex is responsible for moving things to deliverables.
Text source: OpenAI official information, searchnews mapping
Corporate employees don't necessarily know when to open Codex. Many people don't even know what Codex can do.
But they know ChatGPT.
So OpenAI's choice is straightforward: you don't have to judge the tool entrance, and I'm going to install a piece.
Users do not want to install dozens of AI tools on mobile phones and computers. The product that really stays is not necessarily the most capable product, but the most useful product.
This is on OpenAI, the ChatGPT.
** This is Super App**
Put it on Codex, from you to it, inside ChatGPT.
You, your fine, that's very emotional value.
Three new functions, actually, a workflow
OpenAI sent three things to Codex this time: Agent Plugins, Annots, Sets.
These three things, they sound like three functional points.
But they're a complete stream of work.
"What tools can I get?"
"How I Motivated."
"How do I share the output with the team?"
Text source: OpenAI official information, searchnews mapping
Let's start with the plugin.
OpenAI this time launched six role plugins covering data analysis, creative production, marketing, product design, open market investment, investment bank. Officially, these plugins are connected to 62 common applications and pack 110 skills.
It's not traditional.skills marketplace.
This is the job skill kit.
You can think of why you can do this job, not because you have the skills necessary for it.
Data analysis plugins, for example, do not just leave Codex with Snowflake or Tableau. It needs to understand operational issues, look at data, explain changes in indicators, then report and dashboard.
Creative production plugins are not simply the generation of pictures. It's going to start from brief, make a mood board, put out an ad and get to Figma, Canva, etc.
Sales plugins are used for such systems as CRM, Slack, HubSpot, which help teams to find high-priority accounts, prepare customer meetings, write follow-up, and update customer records.
This is closer to real work than "AI to write a story for me".
Real work is never the end of a sentence.
The real job is to take the context, adjust the tools, produce the first draft, be modified and put in the team process.
I just want to say that unemployment is getting faster.
There's a common problem with a lot of Agent products: the first edition looks great, but it's painful.
This I know very well.
You make it a report, 80% of it is, but a chart doesn't fit, and then you have to put at least two times the amount of time on a negative chart.
I am sure your readers and friends are aware that the cost of this last kilometre is more than the cost of all the kilometres ahead combined.
And this little thing that you're talking about, you're talking about, you're talking about it.
The official version of OpenAI is that developers have changed codes, Markdown files and websites by using annotations.
This now extends to documents, tables and slides.
In the office workflow, most of the time is not from 0 to 1, but from 80 minutes to 90 minutes.
You select a chart on the slide to change Codex to a clearer label. You mark the conclusion of the investment report and make it a source. You circle the web navigation bar and change it.
It only moves where you're surrounded.
It's like people working together with Agent.
Sites turned the product into a sheet Noodles.
I think the most imaginative function this time is Sits.
The official description for OpenAI is that Codex can turn ideas, analyses and plans into interactive, hosted web pages or App and share them with colleagues in the workspace through URLs.
This idea is too exciting.
Setes is currently a preview for business and enterprise clients, mainly for workspace internal sharing.
Text source: OpenAI official information, searchnews mapping
This thing looks like a "one sentence generation website" but I think it's more accurate to understand that**OpenAI wants to expand delivery patterns outside documents, tables, and PPT. **
It's much like Claude Code's Tariq HTML is better a delivery tool than Mark Down.
A lot of jobs aren't fit for PPT.
Financial projections are better suited to become senario planner.
The product release is better suited to become an updated lanch hub.
Client review is better suited to become an internal page that can point, see trends and record problems.
It's easy to write about it as an all-powerful Agent, and then people get excited, leading to a dramatic rise in the market value of OpenAI.
But there are three issues that require attention.
Text source: OpenAI official information, searchnews mapping
Codex didn't disappear.
More precisely, the Codex capability would enter the ChatGPT and the independent Codex entrance would still exist. The developers will still use it in App, CLI, Ide, GitHub.
The rights were not automatically released.
OpenAI Help Center writes clearly that plugins in Business, Enterprise, Edu workspace will follow workspace apps.
The administrator can disable the app from the working-space settings and control who can access through RBAC.
ChatGPT and Codex are not all mixed up.
The official help document mentions that the two sides are still separated, but some settings and connected services may be followed.
For example, you picked up Google Drive in ChatGPT, and it could be used in Codex; you could be disconnected at any time.
Agent really wants to get into the workflow, not as easy as demo, but as the authority, audit, context, confirmation mechanism.
So this time Codex and ChatGPT merge cannot be seen as just a product update.
It's more like OpenAI on the job floor.
After the models are getting stronger, users do not compare with benchmark every day.
Users ask more simple questions:
Can you get my context?
Can you run the tools for me?
Can the results become deliverables?
Can I do something about it instead of pushing back and wasting time?
Can you share, track, reuse in the team?
Whoever can answer these questions will be closer to the corporate AI default entrance.
Claude Code is strong in the minds of developers, Microsoft Copilot is in Windows and Office, and domestic flying books and nails are all stuck in the integrated entrance.
The advantage of OpenAI is that ChatGPT has been standing where too many people open every day.
Codex went to ChatGPT this time, essentially turning "executive" into a default capability.
Because once the default portal is in place, the user will not even be aware that you are switching the tool.
He just thinks, "I just let ChatGPT finish this."
That's what I think OpenAI really wants.
It doesn't just make you know one more Codex.
It makes you forget you still need to open Codex alone.
Source:
- OpenAI: "Intelligence at Work: an OpenAI livestream"
- OpenAI: "Codex for every role, tool, and workflow"
- OpenAI: "Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT"
- OpenAI: "Introducing Codex"
- OpenAI Academy: "How to use Codex for everyday work"
- OpenAI Help Center: "Using Codex with your ChatGPT plan"
- 9to5Mac: "OpenAI putting Codex inside ChatGPT app everywhere"