OpenAI says new products extend earlier experiments and iterations

OpenAI described many of its products released that day as “take 5” versions of earlier internal work. Dots went through many variations, including local and cloud versions, and Space through multiple iterations. The team had previously offered a chat feature called Canvas and developed internal knowledge-based products.

Codex Cloud was described as a “full 2.0”: Codex began as a cloud product, moved into a period of local agents, and is now returning to running a full local agent in cloud environments. The OpenAI team member said rapidly changing models make it difficult to time products for when a model is best suited to them; some efforts can be slightly early or “slightly right.” They added that the products available that day felt “magical.”