Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
- Published
- July 28, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 9m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jul 29, 2026
Discusses openai, agents.
Summary
There are roughly 100x more people who use code than who can write code. As code that “just works” becomes easier to generate, this group may be the biggest prize of all — if you can get the agentic interface right.A key trend we have been tracking over at AINews is the absolute explosion in Codex usage this year, with MAU now up >10x from Jan 2026. Less …
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There are roughly 100x more people who use code than who can write code. As code that “just works” becomes easier to generate, this group may be the biggest prize of all — if you can get the agentic interface right.A key trend we have been tracking over at AINews is the absolute explosion in Codex usage this year, with MAU now up >10x from Jan 2026. Less than two weeks after their July 9th launch, OpenAI said ChatGPT Work and Codex had reached 10M million users combined (as we cover in the pod,
Themes
- openai
- agents