The latest update includes role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, product design, and investment banking. In total, the rollout covers 62 apps and 110 capabilities, with additional plugins for areas such as legal work and marketing expected to follow. Similar plugin-style systems have already been used by Anthropic, usually combining agent prompts, predefined tools such as web search, and connectors for importing and exporting data.

One of the new features, Sites, allows users to publish analyses, plans, or project outputs as interactive websites. Another tool, Annotations, lets users highlight specific parts of documents or spreadsheets and ask Codex to modify them directly.

OpenAI is also working on an open ecosystem where partners will be able to build their own plugins. Early partners include Wix, Figma, and Replit.

According to OpenAI, Codex is now used by more than five million people per week. Around 20% of them are not developers, but professionals such as analysts, designers, and bankers. This non-developer audience is reportedly growing three times faster than the developer user base.

The update shows OpenAI’s attempt to turn Codex into a general-purpose work app — and potentially, over time, into a kind of super-app that could eventually merge more closely with ChatGPT