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.
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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.
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