OpenAI is making a stronger push into the enterprise market with a new set of features for Codex, its agentic AI tool designed to help users complete workplace tasks more efficiently.
On Tuesday, the company introduced several new capabilities for Codex and also released an internal report showing how the tool is being used across different types of knowledge work. According to OpenAI, Codex is no longer being used only by software developers. The company said the tool now has more than 5 million weekly active users, which is more than six times higher than when the desktop app launched in February.
Developers still make up the largest group of Codex users, but OpenAI said knowledge workers now account for around 20 percent of its user base. That group is also growing more than three times faster, showing that Codex is becoming useful far beyond traditional coding tasks.
To attract more workplace users, OpenAI has launched six new plug-ins built for specific professional roles. These plug-ins focus on data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Each tool is available inside the Codex app and includes integrations, instructions, and context designed to help Codex perform tasks related to those fields.
Like most AI tools, the new plug-ins are expected to become more useful as users customize them over time. However, OpenAI says they are also designed to work effectively right away without requiring heavy setup.
The move follows a similar enterprise push from Anthropic, which introduced its own enterprise agents program in February and later launched finance-focused agents in May. OpenAI has traditionally been more focused on consumer AI products, but it has been moving faster into enterprise tools this year. The company added plug-in support for Codex in March.
Alongside the new plug-ins, OpenAI also introduced a Sites feature that allows Codex to turn its work into a hosted interactive website instead of only producing a local file. For this feature, OpenAI is working with Wix, Base44, Replit, Lovable, Figma, and Emergent, while also planning to build a larger partner ecosystem.
Another new feature, called Annotations, will let users highlight a specific part of a document or file inside Codex. This will allow them to give more focused instructions and provide better context for the task they want completed.
These updates arrive just three weeks after OpenAI launched a new enterprise-focused joint venture called the OpenAI Deployment Company. The venture is backed by more than $4 billion from global investment firms and is aimed at helping businesses integrate OpenAI tools more deeply into their daily operations.
OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser said at the launch that AI is becoming capable of doing more meaningful work inside organizations. She added that the main challenge now is helping companies connect these systems with the infrastructure and workflows that power their businesses.
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