Overview
- Usage of Codex has surged in early 2026, with active users growing more than fivefold since January and reporting in late June indicating the platform now exceeds three million weekly active users.
- An April 16, 2026 product update added multi-agent parallel execution, direct computer control, and task‑delegation features that let agents run concurrent workflows and interact with desktops and apps.
- Inside OpenAI Codex now produces nearly all employee output tokens while outside organizations and individual users show uneven adoption, with token shares of about 63% for organizations and 16.5% for individuals.
- Samples show many users delegate substantial work to Codex: over 80% made requests estimated to save 30+ minutes, about 70% saved more than an hour, and roughly a quarter delegated tasks estimated to take a human more than eight hours.
- Large firms are expanding deployments and the new agent workloads are driving greater demand for centralized GPU compute, raising questions about security controls, human review, and how jobs and supervision will change.