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OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex<\/a>, meant to expand the agentic tool\u2019s uses in the workplace.<\/p>\n Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report<\/a> on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, finding its uses go far beyond software engineering.<\/p>\n \u201cCodex now has more than 5 million weekly active users, up more than 6x since the launch of the desktop app in February,\u201d reads a blog post introducing the report<\/a>. \u201cWhile developers remain the largest user group, knowledge workers now represent about 20 percent of users and are growing more than three times as fast.\u201d<\/p>\n To further court those users, OpenAI released a set of six plug-ins aimed at specific jobs: data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Available from within the Codex app<\/a>, each of the new tools bundles integrations, instructions, and context to allow Codex to approximate a specific job.<\/p>\n Like any AI tool, the plug-ins will grow more effective with user customization, but they\u2019re meant to be effective tools out of the box.<\/p>\n The new tools come after a similar push for agentic plug-ins from Anthropic, which launched its enterprise agents program<\/a> in February. (A more specific set of finance-oriented agents launched in May<\/a>.) With its traditional consumer focus, OpenAI has been slower to court enterprise customers, only introducing plug-in support for Codex in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n Together with the plug-ins, OpenAI introduced a new Sites feature, which allows Codex to output its work product as a hosted interactive website, instead of just a local file. As part of that system, OpenAI is partnering with Wix, Base44, Replit, Lovable, Figma, and Emergent \u2014 although the company plans to develop a larger partner ecosystem to support the service.<\/p>\n A new Annotations feature will also allow users to designate a specific part of a document or file within Codex, allowing for more specific commands and context operations.<\/p>\n The new enterprise features come just three weeks after OpenAI launched a new joint venture for enterprise clients, dubbed the OpenAI Deployment Company<\/a>. The venture includes more than $4 billion in funding from global investment firms, with the aim of integrating OpenAI tools more deeply into businesses around the world.<\/p>\n \u201cAI is becoming capable of doing increasingly meaningful work inside organizations,\u201d OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser said in a statement at launch. \u201cThe challenge now is helping companies integrate these systems into the infrastructure and workflows that power their businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n