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OpenAI Launches Enhanced Codex App with Multi-Agent Functionality

4/17/2026

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OpenAI released a new version of the Codex desktop app that runs tasks in the background on a user's PC.
The update adds multi-agent functionality, enabling several tasks to run simultaneously.
It includes an in-app web browser, image generation with gpt-image-1.5, and 111 new plugins for various applications.
Codex can remember past interactions to improve performance and supports OpenAI's strategy to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code on macOS.

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Story summary

OpenAI released a new version of the Codex desktop app that runs tasks in the background on a user's PC.
The update adds multi-agent functionality, enabling several tasks to run simultaneously.
It includes an in-app web browser, image generation with gpt-image-1.5, and 111 new plugins for various applications.
Codex can remember past interactions to improve performance and supports OpenAI's strategy to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code on macOS.