OpenAI introduces role-specific Codex plugins, annotations, and Sites preview

OpenAI introduced role-specific plugins, in-place annotations, and a preview of interactive Sites for Codex, reporting that over 5 million people now use the tool weekly. Non-developers—including analysts, marketers, and operators—make up about 20% of users and are growing more than 3x as fast as developers.

The company launched six out-of-the-box plugins covering data analytics (Snowflake, Databricks Genie, Hex, Tableau), creative production (Figma, Canva, Shutterstock, Picsart, Fal), sales (Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Outreach, Clay, Rox, Actively), product design (Figma, Canva), public equity investing (Moody’s, Daloopa, Datasite, FactSet, LSEG, S&P, PitchBook, Hebbia), and investment banking. The plugins bundle 62 apps and 110 skills, and teams can adapt them or build custom plugins. Future plugins planned include Corporate Finance, Private Equity Investing, Marketing Strategy, Strategy Consulting, and Legal, with an open ecosystem for partner-created plugins also in development.

Annotations allow users to refine outputs directly, while Sites enables creation of interactive websites and apps shareable via URL with a workspace. OpenAI noted internal non-technical teams use Codex to build apps and dashboards, while Zapier uses it for knowledge retrieval and operational documents, and NVIDIA researchers use it to accelerate experiment workflows.

Source: OpenAI Blog