OpenAI's Unification Play: One App, Three Products, No Fanfare
OpenAI quietly announced it's merging ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas into a single desktop app. The April Codex update shows what unification looks like in practice.
OpenAI quietly announced it's merging ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas into a single desktop app. The April Codex update shows what unification looks like in practice.
OpenAI quietly announced it's merging ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas into a single desktop app. The April Codex update shows what unification looks like in practice.
Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT-5.4 all score 57 on Artificial Analysis—the first three-way tie at the top in eighteen months. Intelligence parity masks stark differences in price and speed.
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