OpenAI just gave Codex a major upgrade.

From a coding assistant into a workspace builder that can create interactive sites, apps, dashboards, planners, and review tools from plain work instructions.

The most important new feature they released is "Sites". i.e. Codex can generate a hosted interactive workspace instead of only producing a document, spreadsheet, slide, or code file.

OpenAI is also adding plugins for different jobs, so Codex knows how to help analysts, marketers, sales teams, product designers, investors, and bankers using the tools they already use.

A data analyst might ask Codex to explain why sales dropped, then Codex could pull from data tools and create a dashboard.

A sales team might ask Codex to prepare for a customer meeting, then Codex could collect account history, risks, follow-ups, and next steps into one shared page.

The third feature is annotations, which means you can click a specific part of the result and ask Codex to fix only that part.

Codex already reaches 5M weekly users, and OpenAI says 20% of them are now non-developers, with that group growing over 3x faster than developers.