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OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers

OpenAI has expanded Codex with role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, product design, and investment banking, adding 62 apps and 110 capabilities. The company is also introducing Sites for publishing analyses as interactive pages and Annotations for in-document edits, while opening Codex to third-party developers, naming Wix, Figma, and Replit as early partners. OpenAI reports more than five million people using Codex each week, with the non-developer cohort—analysts, designers, and bankers—growing roughly three times faster than the developer segment. The expansion suggests a deliberate pivot from Codex's roots as a coding assistant toward a broader, all-purpose work app, enabling cross-functional workflows and tool integrations within a single interface. By enabling role-specific plugins, Codex can surface domain-aware capabilities (for data analysis, sales workflows, design tasks, and financial modelling) without requiring users to write code. The new Sites feature allows users to publish analyses or plans as interactive pages, while Annotations streamlines collaboration by letting participants request changes directly in documents or tables. Third-party developers gain access to Codex through early partnerships with Wix, Figma, and Replit, expanding the potential plugin catalogue and embedding Codex within existing SaaS ecosystems. OpenAI frames this as part of a broader strategy to nurture an ecosystem around Codex and potentially contribute to a ChatGPT-driven super app in the longer term, though timelines and governance for the expanded platform remain to be clarified.