February 10, 2026

OpenAI's new Codex app hits 1M+ downloads in first week — but limits may be coming to free and Go users

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In a major milestone for the "AI coding wars," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed on X that the company's standalone Codex application (currently only for Mac computers) surpassed 1 million downloads in its first week of availability, ech...