AXIOS (Megan Morrone) - Exclusive: Codex agents are inching into the mainstream
AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work. Why it matters: The frontier AI labs have spent years promising that effective AI agents will act as our minions in the workplace and at home and that might soon be a reality. The big picture: Use of Codex — OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform — is accelerating, according to a new report from OpenAI, Columbia, Duke and the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers separate Codex users into three categories: OpenAI employees, outside organizations and individual users. Then they measured usage of Codex versus ChatGPT, by tokens. - 99.8% of OpenAI employees' output tokens were produced with Codex, compared to 63% for organizations and 16.5% for individuals. - OpenAI's…