As arch-rival Anthropic opens a new path to “AI office” with Claude Code, OpenAI is following the same path. In the early morning of Wednesday, Beijing time, OpenAI held a press conference with the theme of "AI at Work" (Intelligence at Work), launching a Codex workflow plug-in for stock investment, creative design and other positions, demonstratingHow to integrate AI into enterprise workflows and take on more and more tasks originally completed by knowledge workers.
Codex was originally an AI programming tool for programmers, but as the AI industry enters the era of agents, the use of such tools in non-programming fields is attracting attention from the capital market.
OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser revealed at the opening,OpenAI's Codex tool reached the milestone of 5 million weekly active users last weekend, 20% of which are not programmers.At the same time, revenue from enterprises has accounted for 40% of OpenAI’s overall revenue.This proportion will reach 50% by the end of this year.
OpenAI's enterprise product director Alexander Embiricos later announced that in the next few weeks, Codex will be put into ChatGPT, so that 1 billion users around the world can feel the magic of intelligent agents empowering the workplace and daily life.
As the highlight of the conference, OpenAI launched 6 Codex role plug-ins, coveringSix fields: data analysis, creative production, sales, product design, listed company stock investment, and investment banking. These plug-ins package the skills, instructions, workflows required for related work, and the external applications that need to be called, generally including110 skills and can be associated with 62 external applications.
Here is an overview of each plug-in from OpenAI:
Data Analytics PluginHelp analysts and business teams use data to answer questions. Users can explore product and business data, explain the reasons for changes in key indicators, and create reports and data dashboards with tools such as Snowflake and Tableau.
Creative Production PluginHelp marketing and creative teams quickly transform a simple creative proposal into reviewable material. The team can create marketing activity boards, produce and optimize different versions of display ads, and generate product scene diagrams or picture materials suitable for e-commerce platforms, supporting tools such as Figma and Canva.
Sales PluginHelp sales teams integrate customer information into workflows that drive deals forward. Salespeople can identify top-priority accounts and potential sales signals, prepare for client meetings, complete follow-ups, update client profiles, develop closing plans, and review at-risk deals.
Product Design PluginDesigned to help teams quickly transform early ideas into reviewable product prototypes. Teams can explore different product directions, review user flows, build prototypes based on real web links, and make static screenshots interactive.
The Public Equity Investing Plugin helps investors understand market and corporate information more efficiently. Investors can review financial report performance, compare different companies, track key market signals, and use information from Moody's, FactSet, Standard & Poor's (S&P), and PitchBook to evaluate whether a certain investment logic is strengthening or weakening to assist investment decisions.
(One-click generation of research reports on listed companies, source: OpenAI)
Investment Banking PluginHelp investment banking practitioners convert research analysis and due diligence results into professional client-facing materials. Users can create roadshow promotion materials, analyze comparable companies and comparable transaction cases, and formulate investment recommendations and client plans based on due diligence results, while using proven professional data sources to improve work efficiency.
OpenAI emphasizes that today’s release is just the beginning,Corporate finance, private equity investment, marketing strategy, strategic consulting and legal will also be launched in the futureand other plug-ins for specific job roles.
Regarding the recent common concerns about "AI burning tokens/money like crazy", OpenAI said that taking the recently released GPT-5.5 as an example, the company will continue to implement the development direction of "burning fewer tokens and producing better results".
OpenAI simultaneously launched the two functions of "Annotation" and "Site", providing a new way for humans to interact with AI and to display the results of AI work.
Specifically,Through "annotations", users can tell Codex where changes need to be made in the output sectionFor example, AI is required to add specific numbers in financial report analysis, or it is required to convert financial data into chart display in an Excel spreadsheet. Previously, developers could use the "comment" feature to modify code, and this way of working has been extended to usersDocuments, spreadsheets and slides created with AI.
The "Site" feature is more intuitive. Users can useCodexCreate and share interactive web pages and apps, displaying the results of the labor of users and AI, such as visual interfaces for financial analysis and event operations.
