OpenAI Launches New AI Coding Agent 🔥

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

In today's edition, we're looking at OpenAI’s new cloud-based software engineering agent called Codex, which aims to take advantage of the growing hype around building software with AI.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Chart of the week: The Top 10 Most Wanted Skills for AI Jobs 💼

• OpenAI Launches Codex, an AI Agent for Coding

• Free Resources

• AI tools to check out

• Video of the week

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Chart of the week

The Top 10 Most Wanted Skills for AI Jobs 💼

• The visualization shows the most in-demand skills for AI jobs, based on data from the 2025 AI Index Report.

• In 2024, AI job postings increased by 20%, with the most frequently mentioned skills focused on programming languages like Python and SQL, along with data science.

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AI News

OPENAI

OpenAI Launches Codex, an AI Agent for Coding

OpenAI launched a research preview on Friday of what it’s calling its most capable AI coding agent yet.

Details:

• Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent, can write features, answer questions about a codebase, fix bugs, and propose pull requests for review. Several tasks can run simultaneously, and users retain full access to their computers while the agent takes anywhere from one to 30 minutes to complete a task.

• It is powered by codex-1, a version of the company’s o3 AI reasoning model optimized for software engineering tasks. It produces cleaner code than o3, follows instructions more precisely, and will iteratively run tests on its code until passing results are obtained.

• Codex is initially available to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users, with OpenAI planning to expand access soon to ChatGPT Plus and Edu subscribers.

Since it’s still in research preview, the tool remains in early development, and more features and fixes will be added. OpenAI claims it is aiming for “a future where developers drive the work they want to own and delegate the rest to agents—moving faster and being more productive with AI.”

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Resources

😱 What do AI chatbots say about their own bosses — and their rivals?

🚀 How AI agents are revolutionizing administration for businesses

🤔 Eric Schmidt: The AI revolution is underhyped

🔮 How AI coding agents will change your job

🏃🏻 AI-driven motion capture is transforming sports and exercise science

AI Tools to check out

🎨 Playground: AI design tool.

✨ AI Image Upscaler: Upscale images with AI up to 20k for free.

🗣 Hedy: AI meeting coach for every conversation.

👨‍💻 Matter AI: AI Code reviewer to fix bugs, security & performance issues.

👉 Tome: AI assistant for sales.

Video of the week

Sam Altman on Building the ‘Core AI Subscription’ for Your Life

Sam Altman discusses OpenAI's journey from its research beginnings to the development of products like ChatGPT. He talks about their approach to product development, emphasizing speed, small teams, and the goal of creating a core AI subscription service. The discussion also covers the impact of AI on younger generations, his vision for the future of AI integration, and his advice to founders on resilience and overcoming challenges.

You can find timestamps in the comments to jump to the parts you're most interested in.

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