Recap of days 12-17: improved effective usage via context reuse across sub-agents, ability to edit previous messages in the desktop app, 12-hour API cache and permanent cache for logged-in users, plus several reset days.
OpenAI Codex updates (28-day shipping challenge) at a glance
- What is OpenAI Codex updates (28-day shipping challenge)?
- OpenAI Codex updates (28-day shipping challenge) is an app from OpenAI. OpenAI's Codex coding agent and its 28-day series of daily product updates, including desktop app and caching changes.
- Who makes OpenAI Codex updates (28-day shipping challenge)?
- OpenAI Codex updates (28-day shipping challenge) is made by OpenAI.
- Does OpenAI Codex updates (28-day shipping challenge) work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. OpenAI Ireland Ltd serves EEA residents under Europe Terms of Use, and OpenAI offers a DPA, GDPR compliance support and data residency for business products. No Codex-specific EU restriction was found. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does OpenAI Codex updates (28-day shipping challenge) cost?
- Pricing unknown. Pricing and plan limits are not stated in the provided material. Licence: Proprietary.
- Where was OpenAI Codex updates (28-day shipping challenge) shown?
- In 3 creator videos by Matt Wolfe, Matthew Berman. Most recently by Matt Wolfe on 23 Oct 2026, at 8:57 in “AI News: 24 Things You Need To Know This Week”.
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OpenAI Codex is OpenAI's software-engineering agent, available through a desktop app and other OpenAI surfaces. This entry tracks a run of daily product updates shipped over a 28-day period, as described by YouTube creators; the official page material provided here is OpenAI's general site and does not detail the individual releases.
Updates recapped for days 12-17 include better effective usage through context reuse across sub-agents, the ability to edit previous messages in the desktop app, a 12-hour API cache and a permanent cache for logged-in users, plus several usage-limit reset days. Sam Altman has also mentioned Codex alongside API credits as a tool companies could use for scientific work such as discovering new materials.
Codex is accessed through OpenAI accounts and the API. Specific pricing, plan limits and the full list of updates are not given in the provided material and should be checked on OpenAI's official pages.
- Context reuse across sub-agents to improve effective usage
- Editing of previous messages in the desktop app
- 12-hour API cache and permanent cache for logged-in users
- Periodic usage-limit reset days during the 28-day challenge
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Mentioned as a tool companies could use, along with API credits, to do scientific work like discovering new materials. Altman says he hasn't read a line of code in about a year.
Weekly recap of OpenAI's 28-day Codex/Work shipping event. Updates included composer predictions, creating a dot from the phone, delegating Codex work to a dot, a 500K default context for GPT 6.1 Soul, a 60% disk storage reduction and more compute. The creator called it a minor week.
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