OpenAI Codex
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OpenAI Codex is an AI system that translates natural language to code, available through the OpenAI API in private beta
Action Steps
- Explore the OpenAI Codex API documentation to learn more about its capabilities
- Sign up for the private beta to start using OpenAI Codex
- Experiment with OpenAI Codex to build natural language interfaces to existing applications
- Integrate OpenAI Codex with other tools and platforms to enhance its functionality
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Software engineers, developers, and product managers can benefit from OpenAI Codex as it can interpret simple commands in natural language and execute them on the user's behalf, making it possible to build a natural language interface to existing applications
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💡 OpenAI Codex can interpret simple commands in natural language and execute them on the user's behalf, making it possible to build a natural language interface to existing applications
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OpenAI Codex is an AI system that translates natural language to code, available through the OpenAI API in private beta
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# OpenAI Codex
We’ve created an improved version of OpenAI Codex, our AI system that translates natural language to code, and we are releasing it through our API in private beta starting today.
[Start using Codex(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/openai/codex)
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_**Update on May 16, 2025:**_ _We launched Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel._[_Learn more_](https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/)_._[(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/openai/codex)[(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/openai/codex)[(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/openai/codex)
**_Update on April 16, 2025_**_: We launched Codex CLI, our new open source local coding agent. To get started, please visit_[_https://github.com/openai/codex_(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/openai/codex)_._
_The OpenAI Codex models were_[_deprecated_(opens in a new window)](https://platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations#2023-03-20-codex-models)_in March 2023. To learn about our latest coding models, please visit our_[_docs_(opens in a new window)](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models)_._
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Codex is the model that powers[GitHub Copilot(opens in a new window)](https://copilot.github.com/), which we built and launched in partnership with GitHub a month ago. Proficient in more than a dozen programming languages, Codex can now interpret simple commands in natural language and execute them on the user’s behalf—making it possible to build a natural language interface to existing applications. We are now inviting businesses and developers to build on top of OpenAI Codex through our API.
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OpenAI Codex is a descendant of GPT‑3; its training data contains both natural language and billions of lines of source code from publicly available sources, including code in public GitHub repositories. OpenAI Codex is most capable in Python, but it is also proficient in over a dozen languages including JavaScript, Go, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Swift and TypeScript, and even Shell. It has a memory of 14KB for Python code, compared to GPT‑3 which has only 4
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OpenAI Codex | OpenAI
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# OpenAI Codex
We’ve created an improved version of OpenAI Codex, our AI system that translates natural language to code, and we are releasing it through our API in private beta starting today.
[Start using Codex(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/openai/codex)
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_**Update on May 16, 2025:**_ _We launched Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel._[_Learn more_](https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/)_._[(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/openai/codex)[(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/openai/codex)[(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/openai/codex)
**_Update on April 16, 2025_**_: We launched Codex CLI, our new open source local coding agent. To get started, please visit_[_https://github.com/openai/codex_(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/openai/codex)_._
_The OpenAI Codex models were_[_deprecated_(opens in a new window)](https://platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations#2023-03-20-codex-models)_in March 2023. To learn about our latest coding models, please visit our_[_docs_(opens in a new window)](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models)_._
* * *
Codex is the model that powers[GitHub Copilot(opens in a new window)](https://copilot.github.com/), which we built and launched in partnership with GitHub a month ago. Proficient in more than a dozen programming languages, Codex can now interpret simple commands in natural language and execute them on the user’s behalf—making it possible to build a natural language interface to existing applications. We are now inviting businesses and developers to build on top of OpenAI Codex through our API.
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Creating a Space Game with OpenAI Codex
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OpenAI Codex is a descendant of GPT‑3; its training data contains both natural language and billions of lines of source code from publicly available sources, including code in public GitHub repositories. OpenAI Codex is most capable in Python, but it is also proficient in over a dozen languages including JavaScript, Go, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Swift and TypeScript, and even Shell. It has a memory of 14KB for Python code, compared to GPT‑3 which has only 4
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