Codex
Code-writing model used to generate templates and influence bot behavior.
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Videos Mentioning Codex

Stanford CS25: Transformers United V6 I From Language Models to Native Multimodal Intelligence
Stanford Online
Mentioned as a tool used for coding projects, often in conjunction with large language models.

Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
All-In Podcast
Mentioned as a breakthrough in enterprise AI, contributing to business solutions.

5 Papers That Show Where AI Research Is Heading Right Now
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an alternative orchestrator agent for software development.

Groww: If Your Customers Don't Love It or Hate It, You've Already Lost
Y Combinator
A coding tool that the Groww founder has been personally experimenting with, highlighting its potential to simplify development.

Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Scale, AGI, and the Future of Everything
Stanford Online
An AI model developed by OpenAI focused on writing code. It was part of the initial plan to focus on code as a way for models to control things, and saw a significant inflection point with GPT-4.5.

AI Security After Codex and Claude Code — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
Latent Space
A code generation model mentioned as one of the foundational LLMs where vulnerabilities can emerge, leading to new exploit classes.

Teaching AI the Language of Design | Deep Dives with a16z
a16z Deep Dives
Mentioned as an AI model that Paul's tool Impeccable aims to improve upon, as it previously did a terrible job when asked to make design better without understanding the context.

Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Applications, Coding AI
Stanford Online
A coding agent mentioned as a user of Vercel's infrastructure and as an example of a team discovering user needs like domain names.

The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
Latent Space
A code generation model used internally at Databricks via the Isaac wrapper, contributing to agent development workflows.

Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen
Latent Space
A tool mentioned for enabling rapid iteration of evaluations, allowing for quick creation of high-quality benchmarks in AI development.

India Can Create The Largest AI Companies
Y Combinator
A coding model mentioned alongside Anthropic's max plan, suggesting it operates at a similar frontier of AI capabilities.

OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
Lenny's Podcast
An AI-powered application developed by OpenAI, initially focused on coding but expanding to general knowledge work, aiming to be the best desktop app.

The investing hack hiding in your own company
My First Million
One of the applications in the speaker's current tech stack, used for coding assistance.

Why AI Tokens are so Expensive - Computerphile
Computerphile
Mentioned as an example of an environment where AI code completion is used for quick fixes, representing a more cost-effective and reasonable use case compared to full agentic tasks.

Why the tech workforce is quietly splitting in two | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)
Lenny's Podcast
An app whose head was discussed on the podcast regarding AI's current limitations in design, specifically its inability to create novel, creative experiences.

The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
All-In Podcast
An AI model, presumably from OpenAI, described as 'excellent', suggesting a strong performer in their offerings.

The Real Story Behind OpenAI’s “Rogue” Model
Cal Newport
A type of harness that might have been used in the OpenAI exploit gym test, though the specific harness used is unknown.

OpenAI’s Plan to Make ChatGPT the Everything App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
Latent Space
An earlier OpenAI product that saw significant adoption among non-developers, inspiring the development of ChatGPT Work.

Stanford CS329A Self-Improving AI Agents | Part 1 | Course Overview
Stanford Online
An OpenAI coding agent that allows users to modify files and figure out test cases using English instructions.

Garry Tan: "Personal AGI Is How You Stay Under Your Own Power"
Y Combinator
An AI system by OpenAI, mentioned as a potential component of the personal AGI harness.

Peter Steinberger: What Happens When 4.7 Million People Let It Cook
Y Combinator
An AI model developed by OpenAI, initially used for coding tasks and integrated into Open Claw.

Cybersecurity in the Agentic Era | Deep Dives with a16z
a16z Deep Dives
Mentioned as an option for teams to use, but leads to vendor locking.

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
Lenny's Podcast
An AI model developed by OpenAI, integrated into ChatGPT's Work mode, focused on assisting with coding and knowledge work tasks.
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Sam Altman :‘AGI in 2026’, just as Models Start to [Mis]Train Themselves
AI Explained
A tool mentioned as an example of AI working in a browser, providing context for the advanced capabilities of models like Astra.