OpenAI rolls out Codex plug‑ins and new features targeting knowledge workers

Key Points

• OpenAI released six job‑specific Codex plug‑ins covering analytics, creative work, sales, design, equity investing and investment banking.
• New Sites feature converts Codex output into interactive, hosted webpages; partners include Wix, Base44, Replit, Lovable, Figma and Emergent.
• Annotations tool lets users select document sections for more precise AI commands.
• Internal report shows Codex has over 5 million weekly active users, up six times since February; knowledge‑worker share at 20 percent and growing rapidly.
• OpenAI Deployment Company launched with >$4 billion in funding to embed AI tools in enterprise workflows.
• Launch follows Anthropic’s enterprise agents program, signaling intensified competition in the corporate AI market.