OPENAI Launches a cloud -based software engineering agent called Codex as the media threw surrounding the construction software using AI continues to bring the pace. This tool, aimed at professional coders more than amateur mood coders, will allow developers to automate their work more in a way that should be both safer and less opaque than existing tools.
The Openai Codex is available via the web for chatgpt pro users from today. It can generate lines of code but also move to directories and execute commands in a virtual computer, automating more work that developers are going during code writing.
“We are about to undergo a fairly seismic quarter in terms of in which developers can be the most accelerated by agents,” explains Alexander Embiricos, member of the Openai products team working on agents.
The latest models of Anthropic and Google rivals are both already highly qualified in the coding. This launch OPENAI pre -empted the version provided by Google of a more capable coding tool during its E / O event next week, according to an information report. According to many reports, Openai is in talks to acquire Windisurf (formerly Codeium), a startup that manufactures a popular AI coding tool, for $ 3 billion.
A key challenge with mood coding is that AI delegation can cause opaque software and more difficult to understand for a person so that bugs slip. OPENAI says that the model behind Codex has been formed to explain what it does more clearly and help developers correct what it builds and that the use of a virtual computer makes the system safer by design.
It is already possible to write and analyze the code using Chatppt and similar chatbots. OPENAI already offers a codex command line tool which can generate code.
The new Web Codex, which is called Openai, calls “research previously”, performs its own mini computer within a browser. This allows him to perform orders, explore files and files and test the code he wrote independently.
“This is really how we think that most of the development will occur in the future,” says Embiricos. “The agent will work on his own computer and delegate him.”
OPENAI says that the codex is used by external companies, notably Cisco, Tempral, Superhuman and Kodiak.
The coding of atmospheres has become a phenomenon thanks to a generation of AI models which are remarkably good in writing and fixing the code. The same models also allow more qualified developers to accelerate their work.
OPENAI has launched two other agent AI tools in the past year: the operator, who controls a web browser and can automate online tasks, and in -depth research, which performs detailed web search and analysis in order to compile reports.
Josh Tobin, who heads the agent research team in Openai, says that Codex reflects a more important vision for Chatgpt to evolve a chatbot in a teammate. “We think Chatgpt will almost become like a virtual colleague,” says Tobin. “Where you can go there not only for the answers to quick questions (but also to) collaborate with it on more important work pieces on a wide range of different tasks.”
Update of 05/16/24 11:40 AM is: This story has been updated to clarify that the codex is not designed for the coding of the atmosphere.
