Let's take a first look at OpenAI's new o4 model and the codex CLI programming tool. Let's compare it to other AI programming ...

OpenAI today released OpenAI Codex, its AI system that translates natural language into code, through an API in private beta. Able to understand more than a dozen programming languages, Codex can ...

Users with Codex access can find the tool in the sidebar, where they can assign new programming tasks to it via a prompt. What happens next can be seen in a presentation video from OpenAI.

Codex is a version of GPT-3 that has been finetuned for programming tasks. The machine learning model is already used in Copilot, another beta-test code generation product hosted by GitHub.

The program example expands to numerous extra features, such as "now display five such windows with 10 buttons, all at once," and code is generated to produce multiple separate windows on screen.

AI advancements continue to astonish the world, with this month’s developments breaking new ground in multiple industries.

Rather, they hope to speed up programming and remove some of the drudgery. In the live demo, for example, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman casually noted Codex completed a step in seconds that would have taken ...