Well I was going to open with some kind of snarky comment about how OpenAI is following in OpenClaw’s footsteps but, then I thought about how they hired Peter Steinberger recently (OpenClaw’s creator) and this seems like an obvious move.
If you aren’t familiar with Codex, it is OpenAI’s AI coding partner. It usually runs in the CLI or your IDE. And if you don’t know what those things are then you probably don’t use Codex…
The new thing with Codex is them adding it to the ChatGPT mobile app. Now, if you have Codex running on your computer at home, or your laptop that’s sitting right in front of you, or your cloud VM, you can use the ChatGPT app to send instructions to Codex and have it do work.
It’s an interesting use-case that might be questioned more if AI agents like OpenClaw and Hermes weren’t so successful since they have a similar mobile component.
Codex in the mobile app will be available on all ChatGPT plans (including Free) and will be on iOS and Android.
Here is the OpenAI post in case you want more information - https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/