OpenAI launches new MacOS app for agentic coding

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February 2, 2026, 6:19 PM

• •OpenAI's new MacOS app integrates agentic practices for AI software development.
• •The app uses GPT-5.2-Codex, OpenAI's most powerful coding model.
• •The app offers features like automated background tasks and personality selection.
• •Coding benchmarks show varied results across different AI models.

OpenAI has launched a new MacOS app for Codex, integrating agentic practices to advance AI-driven software development, aiming to compete with tools like Claude Code. The app, which works with multiple AI agents in parallel, utilizes OpenAI's most powerful coding model, GPT-5.2-Codex, with a focus on speed of development. While GPT-5.2 leads in some benchmarks, other models like Gemini 3 and Claude Opus show similar performance, indicating a complex competitive landscape. The new app introduces features like automated background tasks and personality selection for agents, promising a significant shift in how software is created.

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